"I know there are gay people who have conservative values – like wanting us to be supportive of business and enterprise, wanting to have strong defence, believing in the strong defence of liberty and these kind of things – but in the past have felt held back because the Conservative Party was sending them a signal that we didn't support them or their lifestyle," he says in one long gulp of prose. "That has changed. I think we can look gay people in the eye and say, 'You can now back us... because we now support gay equality'."
