Gay Lib Dem comes clean as Galloway adjusts to life outside

POLITICS, as diverse as they come, dominated the media in Britain yesterday in the wake of an admission by the Liberal Democrat president, that he was homosexual and the “outing” in a different context of George Galloway from a television show.

The admission by Simon Hughes, 54, and still a candidate for the leadership of his party, after earlier denials, is yet another blow to the Liberal Democrats.

It comes in the wake of the resignation of the party chairman, Charles Kennedy, over drinking problems and the public admission of a former leadership contender Mark Oaten that he had sexual relations with a male prostitute.