This is a delivery of Moet Chandon to No. 11 Downing Street, official residence of Alastair "Badger" Darling our current Chancellor.

The Telegraph article is dated yesterday Tuesday October 7th, 2008. Timing, as always, is everything. 

An erudite commenter (Sebber) from the Telegraph Blog reasoned:

Perhaps Mr Darling has heard that the chump in Number 10 has ordered a bottle of scotch and a revolver from the same suppliers. If so, one wonders if now's the time to order up a case of Laurent-Perrier's Brut Millésimé ’95 for the occasion, before there's a run on them.

If only, if only...