Teary Tory cleared of Westminster rape

A Tory MP’s chief of staff fought back tears today as he was cleared of raping a woman in his boss’s office. Samuel Armstrong, 24, was said to have attacked the parliamentary worker after she fell asleep following a night drinking at the Sports and Social Bar in the Houses of Parliament. The woman, in her 20s, could be seen on CCTV ‘in distress’ as she ran through the corridors of Westminster at 2am. The senior aide to Conservative MP…