In my book The Decade In Tory I recount reports of Mark Menzies hiring a Brazilian sex worker, showing him around the palace of Westminster, and asking him to buy them amphetamines.

And then another time, the police being called cos Menzies had ...
thetimes.co.uk/article/28f948…

... been accused of getting a dog drunk, then engaging in a massive street brawl. He wasn't charged cos he persuaded police he hadn't fed the dog alcohol - he'd just stood by and taken photos. So that's ok then.

My point is: this guy's behaviour is not new. He's been a ...

... human hand grenade for a decade, and the press knew it, the police, his constituency party and Tory HQ. And they've known about this latest seedy little episode for 3 months too.

And yet throughout all this, he kept being selected to stand. Constantly. For a decade...

My point is: it's the same people over and over again, being quietly pardoned by the same party bigwigs over and over again. And everyone in govt knows.

You can't keep claiming it's a bad apple. It's symptomatic of a party that is morally rotten to its very core.