IT IS FAIR to say Ian Johnston and Carmel Napier will not be on each other’s Christmas card list this year.

The fall-out from this newspaper’s revelation that Gwent’s police and crime commissioner Mr Johnston gave former chief constable Mrs Napier a choice of retiring or being removed from office reached Westminster yesterday.

The two key players in this continuing drama gave evidence to the home affairs select committee yesterday.

And it was pretty spiky stuff.

Mr Johnston stuck to his guns and pretty much repeated what he has been saying for weeks – that Mrs Napier was opposed to the concept of PCCs, that morale was lowin the force, and that he had grave concerns about her performance and behaviour.

But it is unsurprisingly Mrs Napier’s evidence that makes the headlines today.

Yesterday was the first time – bar a brief carefully-worded statement – that we have heard from Mrs Napier since her retirement.

She did not hold back. Mrs Napier said she felt bullied and menaced by Mr Johnston.

She said he delivered his ‘retire or be removed’ ultimatum at breakneck speed and then stormed out of her office.

And she said he had never raised a single concern about her performance or behaviour prior to the meeting.

This saga is far from over, with the Welsh affairs select committee considering the matter in Cardiff next week.

This one will run and run.