Double trouble?

The Insider has been following the progress of the coalition government with interest; I could be snide and say it’s like turning over a log in the garden and looking at all the invertebrate creatures scurrying away from the light but if they did not exactly win fair and square, they certainly did not suffer a resounding defeat as the Labour party did.

It was interesting last weekend to watch their first big test, the departure of the cabinet minister, David Laws, after the revelation that he had been claiming £950 per month on expenses to pay as rent to his same-sex partner. Apparent universal acceptance that this was a matter of privacy over Laws’ sexuality, rather than greed over the £950 per month, struck me as odd. After all, if you don’t want your colleagues and constituents to know you are gay, surely the simple answer is not to claim expenses to pay to your gentleman friend as rent, and then it’s