independent investigation commissioned by the Diocese of Covington issued a report last week exonerating the group of teenagers of instigating the incident at the Lincoln Memorial.

The boys were waiting for their buses home from the March for Life when they were approached by Mr. Phillips, who was singing and beating a drum, but the teens were initially accused of harassing the older man.

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So when Mary Cameron gave her son two gifts of £100,000 each, she was doing two normal, ethically acceptable things. First, she was giving her son money at a time when – what with having young children and being a politician rather than a businessman – his expenses were rising and his income wasn’t. Second, she was giving it to him in the hope that she would live another seven years and so he could get that bit of his inheritance in full, rather than taxed at 40 per cent. This was reasonable – kind, indeed – and it would have been absurd for Mr Cameron to have refused