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No sacred cows

The BBC makes Jeremy Thorpe’s downfall a very enjoyable scandal

26 May 2018

9:00 AM

26 May 2018

9:00 AM

As a conservative, I wasn’t sure what to make of the news that the BBC was adapting A Very English Scandal, John Preston’s entertaining account of the Jeremy Thorpe affair. On the one hand, it’s easy to depict Thorpe, the son of a Tory MP and an old Etonian, as a ruling class villain.

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