...Only without the humour or subtlety. I honestly don't give a toss if Simon Hughes is another uphill gardener, but what does bother me is that he only won his seat for the Liberal Democrats in the 1983 Bermondsey byelection on the strength of a media witchhunt against the openly gay Labour candidate, Peter Tatchell (a brave and decent man, by the way).

Jeremy Thorpe must be laughing his arse off.