Politician visited strip club while on UN trip

AUSTRALIAN opposition leader Kevin Rudd yesterday suggested the government may have leaked news of his drunken visit to a New York strip club while on an official trip to the United Nations in 2003.

The Labour party leader admitted visiting Scores, a Manhattan “gentlemen’s club”, during a boozy night out on a taxpayer-funded trip while serving as shadow foreign minister.

Mr Rudd, who says he is not normally a big drinker, said he did not have a “completely clear recollection” of whether there were semi-naked women in the club or what they were doing.