Naughty boys: Politicians and their pasts

Politicians and their pasts

When asked to reveal the naughtiest thing she’d ever done, Theresa May confessed that she had run through fields of wheat, which had annoyed farmers.

That must have seemed utterly sinful to a parson’s daughter, but it doesn’t move the mercury when compared to some of the candidates in the contest to succeed her. Michael Gove owns up to having used cocaine when he was a young journalist, a “mistake” he regrets.