for the Guardian
Jonathan Aitken, the former Conservative cabinet minister who served a prison sentence for perjury, is to be ordained and plans to work as an unpaid prison chaplain.
Aitken became a Christian while serving a prison sentence for perjury in 1999 after lying on oath in a libel case against the Guardian.
Now he is to be ordained as a deacon later this month at St Paul’s cathedral by the new bishop of London, Sarah Mullally.
“I am having a slight struggle tempering my enthusiasm with proper Christian humility,” he told the Sunday Times.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/20 ... s-a-deacon
Portillo's fuckin Aitken...Portillo's fuckin Aitken....la..la...la..la...la..la..la..la!!!!
That's a chant that was quite widespread at the time in certain political circles!