Tories send senior gay MP to Poland
The most senior gay member of the shadow Cabinet will visit the Tories’ European partners to push for homosexual equality.
Shadow environment secretary Nick Herbert will attend a gay rights march in Warsaw in July and also talk to politicians from the ruling Law and Justice party, which has been criticised for homophobia.
The party, founded by recently deceased president Lech Kaczynski, is one of the Tories’ allies in the European Conservatives and reformists group in Brussels.
When he was Warsaw mayor, Mr Kaczynski banned gay rights marches in the city.
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