The most melancholy verdict on the MPs' expenses scandal I have encountered this week came from an older northern Labour backbencher. He hasn't been worked over by the Daily Telegraph not yet, as he admits but thinks many colleagues at Westminster are still in denial about the scale of the disaster. The sensible thing for us to do is to make way for a new generation who will be free of all this stuff from the past. It's painful for people to face up to this; their natural instinct is to work out ways it will come out right," he tells me. New people, new ideas and new politics will be good for the social democratic project in the medium term, the MP believes, but he won't be around to be part of it. Plenty of other MPs are thinking of stepping down too — or facing the prospect of being retired by the voters.
Esther and Joe get flirty as she reveals how she lost her virginity | Daily Mail Online
Please refresh the page and retry. She then decided it was her duty to give it a go. When she was introduced to an Irish legal aid lawyer called John, he looked distinctly impressed. There was chit-chat and laughter over lunch and it seemed that at the very least a lovely friendship might blossom - until John made the most awful faux pas. It was very funny. But although her wrath had subsided, this lady was not for turning. But Des is a hard — maybe impossible - act to follow.
Esther Rantzen: 'It used to be much harder for women and I was the ugly one'
It was the start of a stellar broadcasting career that would see Esther help 4. But as she celebrates her five decades in television today, modest Dame Esther refuses to take credit for her victories saying it was the TV viewers who made it all happen. I was lucky enough to start off in a consumer programme called Braden's Week which relied on the viewers telling you their stories and believing that you will value them and be able to tell other people these stories that are crucial either because they are funny or because they change people's lives. Esther was just 28 years old when she was thrust before the camera in what was back then very much a man's world. They were home to me.
Esther Rantzen revealed she lost her virginity after having a one night stand with a doctor while she was partying in Greece as a young woman. The year-old TV presenter said there was 'romance in the air' when she had her first sexual experience. Her admission came just before some outrageous flirting with former EastEnder Joe Swash - 42 years her junior. Flirty: Esther Rantzen seems to be enjoying having her hair washed by Joe Swash in a rock pool. After the topic of everyone's first time was raised by WAG Nicola McLean, the honest campmates were forthright with their revelations, with Esther revealing just enough information about her first time.