By nature, man abhors a vacuum cleaner

We know Alastair Campbell can dish it, but can he do the dishes? Well, now we know because his journalist partner, Fiona Millar , has told us: he might be brilliant when it comes to plotting political strategy, but Tony Blair's former attack dog is barely housetrained when it comes to doing chores around the home. As Millar relates in the Radio Times magazine: "Even before we had children, Alastair never took any interest in cooking or shopping. He 'broke' the vacuum cleaner the first time he was asked to use it – a well-worn male tactic to avoid being asked again – and when I once asked him to mow the lawn, he replied that if he'd wanted to mow lawns, he would have become a gardener." How's the housework situation in your home? Do you have a male partner that would do anything to get out of his cleaning duties? Or are you a female slob, happy to leave the most tedious chores to your partner? Should we just put up with the fact that your average alpha-male just won't do housework, or is the idea of a man in an apron quite appealing ?