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What makes a cad (and why this was such a good year for them)

From Lord Sewel to – let’s not be sexist – Sally Bercow, there’s life in the old rogue yet

12 December 2015

9:00 AM

12 December 2015

9:00 AM

Now that former Central Office favourite Mark Clarke has been banned for life from the Conservative party, he could pursue a career in copy-writing. He seems to have a twisted aptitude for that sort of thing. When leading the Tories’ general election RoadTrip 2015 of young activists, many of them peachy girls, Mr Clarke was said to have had the slogan ‘Isolate, inebriate and penetrate’.

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