The Independent - London, March 31st, 1997
Conference is 10 minutes late but Alan Watkins is still deep in page 4 of The Sun, where the erotic entanglements of Piers Merchant, MP, and his 17-year-old nightclub hostess are minutely chronicled. " 'I asked whether he liked being handcuffed for sex,' " Watkins reads out, in a pop-eyed, bless-my-soul delivery perfected by Kingsley Amis. " 'He seemed very enthusiastic about the idea.' Hmph. Tories up to their usual standards, I see."
"TORY MP IN STRAIGHT SEX SCANDAL," says Frank Johnson. "Now that would be a story."
"I don't know," says Petronella Wyatt archly. "It sounds like perfectly st...
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