It had been widely thought that David Laws was 'outed' as both an expenses trougher and a homosexualist by the Telegraph at the start of the weekend.

But CF is in a position to reveal that in fact, the Telegraph had announced poor David's sexual preference - in a not-very-subtle coded message - to a largely disinterested world a long, long time prior to this. As early, in fact, as the 6th of July 2009:

 

Remember, you heard it here first.

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