Possible Clues:

• Tasty morsel
• Choice delicacy
• Small tasty piece of food
• Bird closed beak on morsel
• Bird munched morsel
• It backfires on the British leaders and it is a piece of juicy gossip
• Small tasty bit of food
• Small piece of tasty food
• It backfired on the British leaders and it is reported in the gossip column
• Interesting gossip for ones covering up TB in the Isle of Man