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Body beautiful: Anglin strikes a pose

Lambeth Liberal Democrat councillor Charles Anglin has hit out after his naked pictures on a gay dating website were exposed

Lambeth Liberal Democrat councillor Charles Anglin has hit out after naked pictures of him on a gay dating website were exposed last week.

Anglin, councillor for Kennington, south London, was the party’s candidate for Vauxhall at the last general election.

A link to Anglin’s profile on the website was circulated to a number of newspapers last week.

The pictures included him posing naked cupping his genitalia. Other pictures included him laughing for the camera.

On the site, Anglin described himself as a single gay man, into “wrestling” and “reading”.

The naked picture of himself was removed after he spoke to The Voice.

Anglin told The Voice that the images had nothing to do with his political life.

“I’m a gay man and I’m not ashamed about that. I’ve always been open about my sexuality," he said.

“I don’t think it’s an issue. It has nothing to do with my political life. It’s not political what I do with my private life.

“It’s clearly mischievous."

It is still unclear who was behind the circulation of the images.

Anglin faces the polls in the upcoming local government election in May.

SCANDAL

The Liberal Democrats have been dogged by scandals in recent months including the outing of leadership candidate Simon Hughes who admitted that he had gay relationships.

Former Home Affairs spokesman Mark Oaten also resigned after it was revealed that he had an affair with a gay rent boy despite being married.

However, Anglin said he had never been hypocritical about his sexual inclinations.

“There is an issue about politicians or anyone in public life behaving hypocritically and then behaving differently, but I’m an openly gay man. I used to work in a black gay men’s health advisory group. There was never any secret to that."

Published: 05 April 2006
Issue: 1212

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