[Livia]

I keep hearing people repeat that he has done nothing illegal. Well, that's a matter for conjecture as no one knows the whole story so it's impossible to say categorically whether or not what happened was legal or not. However, he is an MP and therefore has a moral obligation not be be a sleaze. It's not the fact that the prostitutes he used were male, there are openly gay MPs, no one has a problem with that. But people do have a problem with the fact that while he was entertaining the rent boys he was married. What's more, he was entertaining them in his London flat, paid for in its entirety by the tax payer.

He has no option but to step down from the Home Affairs Select Committee, his place there was untenable.