As political scandals go, Ukip’s latest offering is hardly a knee-trembler

The Natasha Bolter story is a little peculiar, no? Ms Bolter, formerly of the Labour Party and more latterly a rising star in Ukip, has been telling the press how she was ‘sexually harassed’ by the party’s general secretary, Roger Bird. This seems to have amounted to Mr Bird asking her out a couple of times. Unwise and over-bearing behaviour, I suppose, but hardly the greatest political scandal of the age. All this happened a couple of months ago – so why has it only surfaced now? Was Ms Bolter about to be shafted, so to speak, in the seat she expected to get? Either way, Bird has been suspended and Ukip is in a bit of a tailspin. There will be many more of these before May.