MP comes out as gay to reinforce Tories image: ALAN Duncan has become the first serving Conservative MP to declare his homosexuality - in a move aimed at driving home the party?s new tolerant image.

My, that's impressively cynical. And from Europe, too. Who knew?

Mr Duncan, 45, has been known in Westminster as a confirmed bachelor.

The concept that a newspaper would actually have published that line in this day and age is enough to make you laugh, though.