Thatcher’s government was racked by a series of scandals involving rent boys, the best known and most notorious being Harvey Proctor. In this sketch from 1987, Spitting Image send it up as a Tory job creation scheme.
Horrifically, the recent paedophile scandals surrounding MPs, a dossier of 22 of whom has been handed over to police, including possible murders of two young boys and a Lambeth council worker, has meant that the culture of sexual abuse and exploitation at Westminster has gone far beyond any kind of a joke.