Tory aide had ‘reason to lie over House of Commons ‘rape’

A Tory aide accused of raping a woman in his boss’s Commons office has a ‘potentially huge’ motivation to lie and claim the victim consented, a court heard today. (Tues) Samuel Armstrong, 24, is alleged to have pounced on the young parliamentary worker after she fell asleep following a night drinking in the Houses of Parliament. The senior aide to Conservative MP Craig Mackinlay is said to have told the woman as he pinned her to her boss’s sofa: ‘This…