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A gay leader would be good for the party, says Duncan (Rachel Sylvester, The Telegraph, June 10th, 2005)

Alan Duncan will today become the first openly homosexual man to set out his stall to lead the Conservative Party.[...]

The Conservative Party would, he argued, benefit from having an openly gay leader because that would be a visible demonstration that it had become more tolerant.

"If it were me [who became leader] everyone would know the party had changed and I don't think anyone would have an excuse to vote Liberal Democrat," he said. Mr Duncan, who will give a speech on the future of the party to pupils at the City of London School today, is the second senior Tory to give a firm indication of his intentions.[...]

Mr Duncan, a social and economic liberal, warned that the Tory Party could die if it did not realise the scale of the transformation it required. "If we don't get this right we risk being in terminal decline," he said.

"Marks & Spencer was a fantastic brand in good times but if you have a lousy CEO and lousy knickers you don't do well. Like M & S we need both a good CEO and better frilly knickers."

It’s good to see the Tories reverting to traditional Conservative values.