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A behind-the-scenes go through the desperate, scandalous private life of an English MP and champ manipulator, and the history-making trial that revealed his soiled secrets. As an associate of Parliament and leader of the Liberal Party in the 1960s and 70s, Jeremy Thorpe's bad action went under the radar for years. Law enforcement and politicians likewise colluded to protect one of their own. In 1970, Thorpe was the most popular and charismatic politician in the country, poised to hold the total amount of electric power in a coalition federal government. But Jeremy Thorpe was a man with a solution. His homosexual affairs and harassment of previous partners, together with his propensity for lying and embezzlement, only escalated as he evaded abuse. That's, until a dark night time on the moor with an ex-lover, your dog, and a chosen gun led to implications that even his appeal and electric power couldn't help him get away. Dubbed the "Trial of the Century", Thorpe's climactic circumstance at the Old Bailey in London was the very first time that a leading English politician had stood trial on a murder demand, and the very first time that a murder plot have been hatched in the House of Commons. And it was the very first time that a dominant public figure have been revealed as a philandering gay man within an period when homosexuality had only become legal. Using the pace and dilemma of an thriller, A Very British Scandal is an extraordinary tale of hypocrisy, deceit, and betrayal at the heart of the English establishment.
