Anyone else a tad suspicious about this steady stream of sex scandals coming from the Tories mostly involving gay men?
I don't doubt the events themselves occurred, but the timing's odd. The stories seem to be dropping almost weekly, like someone's sat on them for a while and decided now's the time to make use of them.
I read something the other day about Boris having a new bloke in the Cummings role who used to work for Lynton Crosby, who's very hardline, who's hostile to LGBTQ people, who says the party needs to get back to being genuinely conservative and who's pushing him to focus on crime, so I wonder whether, given their 80-seat majority, they're throwing a bunch of people they want rooted out of the party under the bus whilst giving Boris something to use to strengthen his position, further the culture war, show he cares about the rule of law and shore up his base without weakening his parliamentary grip too much.
There's no way there aren't a ton of straight Tory MPs who are equally shady and who the whips and leadership haven't heard stories about.