Wes Streeting lashed out at the amount of online homophobia he has faced since becoming the UK’s first out gay Defence Secretary, saying it is the worst he has faced in his political career.
Speaking at an event at the Edinburgh Fringe, Mr Streeting said he had experienced an ‘unbelievable volume’ of abuse from people who ‘cannot cope with the idea’ of him being in charge of the UK’s Armed Forces.
While his appointment three weeks ago had been ‘almost entirely unremarked upon in the media,’ he told Iain Dale’s All Talk show that ‘online it matters to a lot of people’.
But he
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