Senior Tory angered by his arrest

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Someone once said the truth is a sliding scale, a very slippery one at that...

As Harriet Harman slithered on the thin ice of dissemblance, cracks in her conviction were palpable. Blinking furiously, she appeared as someone who would rather plunge into freezing waters of ridicule than succumb to truth.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/comment/jeffrandall/3551530/Telling-the-truth-is-lambasted-in-politically-correct-Britain.html