On 6 June, Damian Collins, the Conservative MP for Folkestone and chair of the select committee for digital, culture, media and sport, tweeted a photo he had taken of a bronze bust inside Portcullis House, the office block where much of the Palace of Westminster’s day-to-day work is done. “Jeremy Thorpe makes an appropriate silent witness in the Grimond Room today for our @CommonsCMS select committee hearing with Alexander Nix from Cambridge Analytica #AVeryEnglishScandal,” Collins said.
It was a reference to the BBC drama in which Hugh Grant played Thorpe, the Liberal leader who, in 1978, faced trial for plotting to murder his lover, Norman Scott. And it was true that what was unfolding that day was another very English scandal. Only, unlike the Thorpe drama, it was one that had global significance.
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