There is a silent scandal around the treatment of politicians' spouses

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There is a silent scandal around the treatment of politicians' spouses
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Even now, the powerful can still treat their partners with abominable callousness after they are exposed by the media 🖊️ y_alibhai via ipaperviews

, has behaved with due propriety. Wheeler, a barrister and writer, endured several brazen affairs until they separated. While he was cavorting with Carrie, now his wife, Wheeler said: “Not ideal but… I think I’ve managed.” Their joint divorce statement said: “As friends we will continue to support our four children in the years ahead. We will not be commenting further.” Friends?. Finally, in 2019, she told the biographer Tom Bower about her “ghastly, terrible” marriage.

In April 2021, George Osborne announced his engagement to pregnant lover, Thea Rogers, who had been his special adviser. He professed he had “never been happier in my life”. His ex wife, Frances, an author, is lively and lovely, say all who know her. Wouldn’t it be instructive to hear what she and the older children felt about George’s ecstatic new life? Alas, she is too well behaved to speak out.

On to dear Matt Hancock’s sordid affair during lockdown with his paid advisor, Gina Coladangelo, also married and a mum. He confessed to his ex-wife Martha Hoyer Millar the night just before the news was splashed inhe shared more egotistic bunkum: “It needed to come from me and nobody else… I also knew I had to tell the children – it was going to be incredibly painful….” Poor him. How did Martha and the kids feel? They have vanished from sight. As have Coladangelo’s husband and kids.

A number of MPs are currently being investigated for alleged sexual harassment and inappropriate behaviour. Their partners will not rock the establishment boat and so the perfidies will carry on. Very British scandals end with tight lips and forbearance. How dispiriting is that?

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