Sex scandals and Tories: Profumo and Lambton exposed once more

New entries in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography reveal two politicians reacted in different ways to being caught outThey represented very different ways of reacting to a political sex scandal. One man, chastened and redemptive, became an anonymous volunteer with the poor. The other went on television to defend his marijuana-fuelled cavorting with prostitutes using the explanation: "People sometimes like variety."The two men, Conservative politicians John Profumo and Anthony (Lord) Lambton...

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