I wonder how Laws' partner feels today. You share your life with someone for nine years, you live together, sleep together, but you're not regarded as a ''''partner''''. Lovely to see how Laws' desperation to stay in the closet, allied to his all-consuming political ambition, can lead to him, at least in public, disowning & betraying the person he's been with for nearly a decade.

(If the context helps, I write this as a happy homo, with a long-term mixture of pity and dismay towards those who don't come out.)