Britain’s Parliament has been synonymous with such misbehaviour for centuries. But the current series of scandals still surprises for its quantity and severity
school nurse walked into the London schoolroom in 1815, she found the member of Parliament for Barnstaple already there. Sir Eyre Coote was distinguished by a history of public service and a surpassing fondness for flagellation. He had popped into the school that day to pay the young boys to flog him. The nurse arrived as Coote was buttoning up his breeches. Scandal duly ensued and, in the words of Robert Morrison, a historian, Coote became “the most infamous Regency flagellant”.
A list of parliamentary scandals reads like a concupiscent Cluedo—and as with Cluedo, more details often only deepen the mystery. When Lord Lambton, a Tory, was questioned over his misconduct in the 1970s he confessed to indulging in a “frenzied” bout of “gardening and debauchery”, a pairing that almost certainly raised more questions than it answered.
Many of those involved had little choice in the matter. Look at a list of those caught up in famous scandals, not the rompings but those with whom they “romped”, and you see schoolchildren and prostitutes and, particularly in the first half of the 20th century, gay men. People without power, those who couldn’t speak or couldn’t be heard.
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