Former BBC Director General Greg Dyke has spoken out after police raided Ashford MP Damian Green's constituency office.

Speaking exclusively to the Kent Messenger Group during a visit to our Medway offices, Mr Dyke questioned the nature of the leak at the centre of the controversy.

It comes after Mr Green was arrested by police for hours and his offices searched, following a civil servant leak of information.

Mr Dyke said there was a difference between a civil servant leaking information because they thought it was important to get it out, and someone who was put into a government department to get leaks.

He said MPs had got very "hot under the collar" about the issue.

Mr Dyke was Director-General of the BBC from 2000 to 2004, after working at TV-AM and LWT.