Conservative MP to Enter a Civil Partnership
Alan Duncan will be having the same sex equivalent of a wedding when he enters into a Civil Partnership with his partner James Dunseath. He will become the first Conservative MP to do so and the mutterings within the party is that this is a great thing, not only for Alan and James, but for the image of the Conservative party itself.
It was Margaret Thatcher’s government that introduced ‘Section 28′ into the education system to prevent the ‘liberal lefties’ from teaching children about gays - this lost Thatcher a lot of votes and cast an image of homophobia over the whole party.
In recent years, with David Cameron as the party leader, this image has gone a long way to being shaken off, this partnership is hoped to remove any lingering impression that the Conservative party is homophobic.
Full story and interview with Alan Duncan at the Times Online website.
It is good to see high profile MPs no longer afraid that they will put an end to their careers by publicly acknowledging their homosexuality.