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The Spectator’s Notes | 5 June 2010

In Monday’s Guardian, Julian Glover wrote that David Laws broke the rules of parliamentary expenses ‘because he could not bring himself to reveal that he loved his landlord’.

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In Monday’s Guardian, Julian Glover wrote that David Laws broke the rules of parliamentary expenses ‘because he could not bring himself to reveal that he loved his landlord’.

In Monday’s Guardian, Julian Glover wrote that David Laws broke the rules of parliamentary expenses ‘because he could not bring himself to reveal that he loved his landlord’. On the same day, in the Times, Matthew Parris, Glover’s civil partner, spoke of the ‘stinking hypocrisy’ which caused ‘the fall of a good man’ for no more than ‘an error of judgment’. The chief object of the couple’s onslaught was the Daily Telegraph, which broke the Laws story. It was the gay equivalent of being assailed by Ed Balls and Yvette Cooper at the same time. Because I work for the Telegraph, I am naturally biased, but I knew nothing of the story until I read it in the paper on Saturday, so I am not fighting my personal corner.

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Charles Moore is The Spectator’s chairman.

He is a former editor of the magazine, as well as the Sunday Telegraph and the Daily Telegraph. He became a non-affiliated peer in July 2020.

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