If you are a Tory politician, why not be fat and sexist?

The Spectator | September 10, 2005| | Copyright

Female Labour and Liberal Democrat MPs, while out of the Speaker's earshot, have been caught making personal remarks about the Conservative MP Nicholas Soames. Mr Soames was going about his lawful business, for which he was duly elected, of making 'sexist' remarks about them, though he denies it.

A new book, Sexism in Parliament, quotes the Labour backbencher Barbara Follett as saying that some of her colleagues retaliated against Mr Soames by, as the Daily Mail put it, 'referring to a claim by a former girlfriend that making love to Mr Soames was "like having a wardrobe fall on you with ...

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