"So it was perhaps unsurprising that Liam Fox, renowned for being on the Right of the Conservative party, recognised a kindred spirit when they were introduced.
"At the time, in the late Nineties, Dr Fox was a rising star of politics while Werritty was part-way through a degree course in public policy. Apart from their mutual adoration of the Iron Lady the pair soon discovered that they shared a common outlook on a whole range of subjects, from foreign policy to rugby.
"The exact details of that first meeting are lost but whether it was a Burns Night supper, as has been suggested, or some other event for young Conservatives Liam Fox made a fateful decision that evening. He took Adam Werritty under his wing, offering a room in his London flat to the younger man after he had finished his studies.
"It was the start of a special relationship which last week cost the Defence Secretary his job..."
The Express profiles Adam Werritty, international man of mystery and Liam Fox's
Not enough nudge-nudge wink-winkery and slurs and innuendo for yours truly, to be honest.
But having a poster of Margaret Thatcher on your student bedroom wall?
Now that is perverted.
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I reckon David Laws, William Hague, Ivan Massow, and Alan Duncan all had pictures of Thatcher on their bedroom walls.
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He just sounds like a boring Tory geek. I cannot for the life of fathom why he's so important that a Secretary of State had to resign.
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