Vicky Pryce is asked to stand down from the Hurlingham Club The Hurlingham has a history that stretches back almost a century and a half, the Duke of Edinburgh as its current patron and Lord Archer as a member, but the club has decided that it can do without Vicky Pryce coming through its portals any more. In the latest humiliation to be visited upon Chris Huhne's estranged wife - she has already been stripped of the Companion of the Order of the Bath - the worthies at the Hurlingham have invited her to resign her membership. Miss Pryce, who was jailed for eight months for perverting the course of justice after taking speeding points for Huhne in 2003, is reluctant to talk about the matter, and the club, for its part, says it makes it a rule never to discuss its members. "It is not without precedent for a member to be blackballed after serving a jail sentence - one thinks, for instance of Lord Brocket - but each case is judged very much on its merits," a member of the club whispers. Jeffrey Archer remains a member of the Hurlingham, not least, because of his philanthropic activities. Miss Pryce can take some consolation in the fact she remains a member of the Reform Club, which once numbered the traitor Guy Burgess among its members. "Miss Pryce is a member and I have no reason to believe that she will cease to be at any time soon," the club's acting secretary Ian Kenworthy tells me when I inquire. Burgess's defection to Russia meant it was not necessary to formally invite him to cease to be a member of the club.