At the 1987 Tory party conference Margaret Thatcher made some comments about gay people that would be career ending today. The next year her government introduced the now infamous Section 28.
Francis Maude said of the governments attitude ""In hindsight, it was very wrong — very wrong. It was a legislative provision that came out of honourable motives. It took me some time to realise what an emblem of intolerance Section 28 had become for gay people. It was the tip of a deep iceberg — the iceberg below the surface being a host of anti-gay social attitudes."
But has the Tory party changed or does the recent praise for Margaret Thatcher show they still secretly long for the days when they could say this sort of anti gay comment.
