‘I am a practising Christian,” Peter Bone has told the House of Commons, by way of a substitute for argument. For instance: “I am a Christian and I am against the redefinition of marriage”. (It followed, for Mr Bone, that same-sex marriage was “completely nuts”.)
As with disgraced TV evangelists, Bone’s direct line to grace added piquancy to the news, following the finding of parliament’s independent expert (IEP) panel, that this pious and respected friend of the Plymouth Brethren was, for at least some months of his parliamentary career, also a bully who persecuted a younger member of staff .
