Scandal Of The Century

Hugh Grant plays Jeremy Thorpe MP, who was caught up in a strange plot to murder his ex-lover….

- Nick Cannon

Back in the 1970s, a huge scandal shook the British political establishment to its core when Jeremy Thorpe MP, the then leader of the Liberal Party, was accused of conspiring to murder his former gay lover, Norman Scott – leading to an infamous trial at the Old Bailey in 1979.

Secrets and lies