Former Met chief Lord Blair criticises leaking of police log at centre of plebgate affair He told BBC Radio 4"s Today programme: "If it was leaked it was unacceptable but I think you are making an assumption that a police officer or someone from the police leaked it. We don't know that. I understand that there is an investigation to determine that. But Lord Blair said he disagreed with Mr Reed. Did 'plebgate' matter? He told BBC Radio 4 Today: "I think that this was clearly leaked. It is a police transcript. I think the Federation got this really wrong. I am not accusing the Federation of leaking it - but they went on too long about Mitchell. Mitchell was in enough trouble anyway and the Federation should have been more dignified. Lord Blair said that, as he had told Lord Leveson, who has been conducting an inquiry into press standards, "leaking of material out of the police service became endemic... and that's got to stop." Mr Reed said it was time to "draw a line" under the affair. "We've moved on, the minister's moved on," he said. Polling by Lord Ashcroft, the Conservative party donor, has found the affair is the political story of recent months most remembered by the public. A third of those questioned cited 'plebgate' as an issued when asked to recall a recent political stories, followed by George Obsorne failing to buy a first class train ticket (13 per cent) the Scottish independence referendum (8 per cent) and child benefit cuts (seven per cent.) Issues including police commissioner elections, Ed Miliband's conference speech and immigration were cited by two per cent of respondents. "People do register the petty things," said Lord Ashcroft. They may protest that these incidents are irrelevant, but their view of a government or party can only be shaped by the things they hear about.