BEN SUMMERSKILL has weighed into this summer’s silly season debate about the privacy, or otherwise, of politicians’ sex lives. Responding to Norman Fowler’s dully predictable assertion that “politicians should be ready to say that private affairs are politically irrelevant,” the chief executive of Stonewall asks of politicians who love to stand on the moral high ground and bang on to the rest of us about traditional family values: “Should such aficionados of call girls – Lord Archer – mistresses – Lords Archer, Coe and Parkinson and MPs James Gray and Piers Merchant – and massage parlours – Joe Ashton – really be in a position to complain if their opponents decide their extra-curricular activities warrant public comment?”
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