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Born in Sussex, went to Lancing, successful business career, married with children to a millionaire heiress, yet described as 'highly inappropriate' as an MP for the Tory safe seat of Bexhill & Battle in 2001, before finally revealing his sexuality after years of suppressing it in 2006 - it's a...

The implication locally was that Barker had gay relationships before he was married - a bit like Michael Portillio did, who had to eventually reveal it when the papers had personal accounts in regards to it from his university days - and the 'highly inappropriate' line was in relation to that.

I assume Farage was tipped off as he wasn't the only one saying it and there was a split in the local association, hence Farage thinking he had a chance by standing there. 'A highly inappropriate choice to be an MP' was the phrase used though.

There wasn't any suggestion of him sleeping around whilst married until he had a fling in with an interior designer and moved out the marital home as revealed in 2006, which frankly shocked The Bexhill & Battle Conservative and Unionist Association to it's very core when revealed. His...

Possible that after recent QT's hijacked by Piers Morgan and Terry Christian, Farage was asked or was conscious of the need to tone down. :shrug:

I always remember in 2001 when Farage stood for UKIP (and obviously lost) in Bexhill & Battle. I lived in that constituency then. He was endorsed and backed by Charles Wardle who was standing down as Tory MP to take on a full time job with Mohamed Al-Fayed, which some in the local Tory...

She's a regular contributor on Sky News too. It's her voice that does me in as much as her opinions.