At the Oxford Union – clashing with Chris Bryant – Attorney General Dominic Grieve said:
“I think being a practising homosexual is a bit like being a practising member of the Church of England.
“It’s one of those things which you have to explain. It’s thought to be a little bit weird by large numbers of people.”
To which Bryant responded:
“Sometimes the casual prejudices of the past get stuck in Tory minds.”
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