A former Conservative front bench politician was a nudist – who was warned by the party never to reveal his penchant.
The unnamed politician is understood to have served in William Hague’s Shadow Cabinet – three years after the Tories lost power.
Despite never having taken off his clothes in a public place he was told to keep quiet about his proclivity by Danny Finkelstein – then a senior adviser to Mr Hague and now a newspaper columnist and Tory peer.
Writing in The Times Lord Finkelstein said the shadow cabinet minister had rather strangely blurted out his secret during a debate on smoking cannabis.
Lord Finkelstein told the shadow minister it was OK to admit to smoking cannabis but not to being a nudist.
“I firmly advised him that were he ever to be asked about this by a reporter, he should try to avoid giving an answer. Revelation would be politically highly undesirable. This was far worse than smoking dope.”
