{"id":176,"date":"2026-06-01T04:41:34","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T04:41:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cityflowjournal.com\/?p=176"},"modified":"2026-06-01T04:41:34","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T04:41:34","slug":"my-night-with-the-young-gay-tories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cityflowjournal.com\/?p=176","title":{"rendered":"My night with the young gay Tories"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Sir Michael Fabricant assures me that he isn\u2019t \u201ca teddy bear fetishist\u201d. I glance around the former Conservative MP\u2019s living room at the multiplicity of ursine plushies, each comatosely slouched as if in the aftermath of a particularly raucous picnic.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/cityflowjournal.com\/?p=174\">Why people hate humanoid robots<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The biggest, Fabricant tells me, gesturing to a dark brown bear, is named \u201cHoward\u201d after an old friend of his. Fabricant tells me that he spotted \u201cHoward\u201d \u2014 Howard the Bear, that is \u2014 while shopping in the Milton Keynes branch of John Lewis. The store was managed at the time by Fabricant\u2019s life partner, Andy Street, former managing director of the John Lewis Partnership, and Mayor for the West Midlands 2018-24. Anyway, Fabricant had to have Howard. And now Howard is reclining in an armchair, staring at a fireplace that\u2019s obscured by dusty flowers. The flowers are artificial and yet they still seem to be wilting.<\/p>\n<p>Like Pooh hunting his Heffalump, I had set out on the trail of a rare and possibly non-existent creature: the Tory of the Future. Fabricant was the VIP guest at an exclusive event hosted by the Young Conservatives (YC\u2019s) in Birmingham, where my \u00a325 ticket had promised the chance to spend \u201c20.00-Late\u201d with the party leadership of tomorrow. The event\u2019s organizer was Hugo Rasenberg, 21, a proteg\u00e9 of Fabricant and Street, then campaigning for a seat on Birmingham City Council. When Rasenberg told Fabricant that I was a journalist, Fabricant immediately proposed the three of us go for a curry \u2014 and so we find ourselves dissecting the future of Conservatism over aperitifs in his sitting room.<\/p>\n<p>When I began my search, it wasn\u2019t entirely clear to me that such a future exists. In 2024, after 14 years of Tory rule, the most successful electoral machine in the Western world abruptly collapsed in on itself: Fabricant and Street both lost their jobs; disenfranchised voters were seduced to either Reform, the Lib Dems, Labour, or the hypnotic\u00a0Greens. Subsequently, party membership reached an all-time low:\u00a0<em>Conservative Home<\/em> predicted in October that the numbers would soon fall below 100,000 \u2013 fewer than half the Green Party\u2019s March 2026 figures. Somewhat overlooked amid Labour\u2019s dire local election results last month were a still more hopeless set of results for Kemi Badenoch, notwithstanding a few isolated triumphs.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s therefore not difficult to see why the party would wish to chase a younger demographic. The difficulty is that the vast majority of young people absolutely detest the Conservative Party. Even in 2019, when Boris Johnson won the biggest majority since 1987, Ipsos Mori\u2019s final poll estimated Labour to be 26 points more popular than the Tories among 18-to-34 year olds. Given that the Conservative Party appeared to be actively hostile to young people throughout its 14 years in power \u2014 imposing austerity, trebling tuition fees, presiding over a dysfunctional housing market, and orchestrating Brexit (which around 75% of young people voted against) \u2014 it is perhaps unsurprising that the party now struggles to articulate what it actually offers us.<\/p>\n<p>The event where Rasenberg first introduced me to Fabricant did, however, offer a few clues. Once I had scanned my QR code and squeezed past two young men fervently kissing, I was surprised to see at least 100 young Tories in the main bar.<\/p>\n<p>The first person I spoke to was a teenager with an accent I couldn\u2019t quite place. \u201cI have some views on immigration\u201d, he spat into my ear. \u201cEven if you need to put a gun to a foreign person\u2019s head to get them to leave the country, then that\u2019s just the way it is.\u201d He then told me he was from Spain.<\/p>\n<p>We were immediately approached by a man of about 19 in a tweed blazer. \u201cI\u2019ve got a story for you,\u201d he said, before revealing that the Conservatives have the highest number of young members compared with other parties. This would not be the last time I heard this baseless claim as the night progressed. I did however speak to two teenage smokers who became party members due to what one described as \u201ccurrent political instability\u201d. The other saw the Tories as \u201ca safe bet\u201d. Another pair seemed to have inherited Toryism from their respective parents, in the same way one might inherit Tottenham Hotspur or a tendency for gout.<\/p>\n<p>I quickly moved on to a crowd which included Jay Chan, 20. If social media numbers were currency in this room, Chan was coining it in with his 40,000 Instagram followers. Identifying as Chinese but a \u201cTory through and through\u201d, he wore his everyday attire: an immaculate suit with braces and a blue plaid tie. He was only two sentences into a monologue when I realized I had seen this performance before: his mode of delivery was remarkably similar to Boris Johnson\u2019s, a blustering enthusiasm punctuated with over-emphasized plosive phonics and jargon. On Chan\u2019s Instagram is a photo of him in a blond wig, cosplaying as his political hero for school Leavers Day. Chan emigrated to the UK from Hong Kong aged 15, joined the Conservative Party less than a year later, and claims he perfected his English by watching Johnson\u2019s televised Covid conferences.<\/p>\n<p>A troop of supporters clustered around him as he charged a pint of Guinness in the air. \u201cWhat do we say of Labour?\u201d he bellowed. \u201cShit\u201d, the group chorused. \u201cWhat do we say of shit?\u201d he asked. \u201cLabour!\u201d came the reply as Jay downed the pint in one to delighted cheers. He immediately did this again, this time to more muted acclamation, and a third time, by which time several of the onlookers had ebbed away.<\/p>\n<p>When we came to discuss the present Tory leadership, Jay Chan had a clear point of difference with Badenoch on the issue of social media. Chan credited the internet with introducing young people to politics \u2014 a prospect particularly important when considering Labour\u2019s\u00a0People Bill, which will allow 16-year olds to vote. In a predominantly male Right-wing room, I was expecting an attempted indoctrination into the manosphere, but instead Chan was one of several young men who volunteered his homosexuality as a talking point. Politics, he suggested, is a natural domain for men who aren\u2019t interested in the football and Formula 1 that their algorithms complacently serve them: \u201cGay men aren\u2019t typically socialized by the media they consume,\u201d he said. \u201cWhen you don\u2019t get along with your straight classmates you also don\u2019t fully get along with girls talking about makeup, dating, fashion\u2026 you begin to find yourself into things like politics. That\u2019s my theory.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A study from March 2026 by King\u2019s College, London revealed that social media does indeed play a \u201chuge role\u201d in promoting traditional gender views. Politics, Chan suggested, consequently function as the \u201ccenter ground\u201d for young gay men \u2014 a space they supposedly gravitate toward on account of being unable to fully inhabit either side of the divide. He notes how a fellow YC believes \u201ceveryone in politics is secretly bisexual\u201d. While clarifying that he doesn\u2019t necessarily agree, he then catalogs the identities of various colleagues: \u201cBisexual, gay, gay, bisexual, transgender\u201d (he pronounced it\u00a0<em>trarns-gender<\/em>), before referring to the Liberal Democrats as the \u201cLiberal Femboy-crats\u201d. After all: \u201cThe\u00a0femboy\u00a0is the essence of liberalism\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>By 9pm the room was packed, predominantly with young men. Their clean-shaven faces were crowned with modest hairstyles. Pastel-hued shirts and cerulean jumpers jostled against each other. Familiar hands wandered across shoulders and upper arms. A young civil servant carouselled around the dancefloor, propelling his tie above his head like a helicopter rotor as he failed to instigate a conga line. It was finally time for the star of the evening: a man who once filmed himself cycling nude around a public park, and whose YouTube channel shows him spanking\u00a0a clothed man on the buttocks with a shoe horn. He also appeared on Channel 4\u2019s <em>Celebrity First Dates<\/em> \u2014 where he came out as bisexual \u2014 and in April 2025, had a short stay in the <em>Celebrity Big Brother<\/em> house: Sir Michael Fabricant.<\/p>\n<p>Fabricant entered with a small entourage, but by the time he reached the stage he was surrounded by swooning young Tories. Their role model grabbed the microphone amidst cheers and hollering. His opening gambit was to celebrate the (then-recent) killing of Iranian leader Ali Hosseini Khamenei. The crowd chanted \u201cUSA, USA, USA!\u201d as their luminary punched the air.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/cityflowjournal.com\/?p=172\">Tony Blair\u2019s comeback will fail<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Although the room was broadly pro-Trump, the crowd was decidedly less enamored with his British tribute act, Nigel Farage. Earlier in the night I\u2019d detected a disgust for Reform UK and its leader, even from those who had been vocally anti-immigration. But Fabricant, surprisingly, encouraged the crowd to vote for Reform UK. This, he suggested, was the best course of action in constituencies where the Conservatives were destined to lose. In the crowd, there was an exchange of side-glances and murmurs.<\/p>\n<p>As his 10-minute speech and subsequent audience questions \u2014 \u201con any subject except my hair\u201d \u2014 drew to a close, someone interrupted the proceedings to call for those running in local elections to raise a hand. A Spartacist collective of arms surged above the crowd. The blazered young man from earlier materialized next to my ear: \u201cDo you not feel roused?\u201d he whispered. I informed him that I remain un-roused. \u201cWould it be different if we were at war?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Before the evening ended with slow dancing, mumbled apologies for drunkenness, and me having to assist in the rescue of a teenage Tory who was lying unconscious on the pavement, Rasenberg introduced me to Fabricant.<\/p>\n<p>Subsequently, a fortnight later, I am in Fabricant\u2019s living room with Rasenberg and Howard the Bear. We are drinking red wine \u2014 wine, Fabricant informs me, that he recently won in a raffle. For now, Fabricant is less keen on formulating a theory as to how the Conservative party can renew itself in an age of populism and soundbites \u2014 and more keen to spill the tea on various Tory colleagues and donors: who fancies whom, who is secretly gay, and who recently surprised him by marrying a woman. He refers to homosexual men as \u201cgay boys\u201d, and tells us that age-related hormone changes haven\u2019t stopped him from \u201ccranking away\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>I ask him why he thinks young people aren\u2019t engaging with the Conservative party. Fabricant proposes it\u2019s because they are incapable of looking beyond the immediate past. \u201cAnd the immediate past to them is the handling of Covid.\u201d It\u2019s a convenient theory: that youth disaffection is a failure of perspective. Even if young people could see past Covid \u2014 including the 23,000 additional deaths resulting from Tory complacency \u2014 it would offer little comfort. Many of the policies that shaped young people\u2019s lives were enacted when today\u2019s teenagers were toddlers: the scrapping of the Educational Maintenance Allowance in 2010 (a weekly payment that supported 16-19 year olds to remain in education); the closure of Connexions (a \u00a3200m a year, government-funded agency that provided teenagers with career advice, training, and personal support); the denial of the chance to go and live and work abroad, thanks to Brexit. Fabricant \u201ctotally stands\u201d by Brexit.<\/p>\n<p>Rasenberg offers an alternate theory. He says the Tories are a party for those who are \u201creading and thinking\u201d as opposed to those who only have \u201cvibes-based\u201d political affiliations. \u201cWe\u2019ve been robbed of what our parents and grandparents had,\u201d he says with reference to the property ladder. He isn\u2019t wrong \u2014 but I also ask whether the Conservative Party is to blame. Under the last Labour government, a household earning the median income could afford to buy an average priced home in England. According to the ONS, by 2022 only 10% of the property market was affordable to the same demographic.<\/p>\n<p>Fabricant steers the conversation away before Rasenberg can reply. After some back and forth, he returns to the prevalence of \u201cgays\u201d in politics. Rasenberg says that, as a straight man in the Conservative Party, he does \u201csometimes feel like a minority\u201d \u2014 and I get the impression he wants his sexuality on the record. Fabricant, a longstanding campaigner for gay rights, claims the Tory\u2019s gay culture is nothing new: he recalls how a former Chief Whip once asked him if there was a \u201chuge gay undercurrent in the Parliamentary party\u201d. Fabricant claims that gay people \u201clike Catholics\u201d stick together. He then tells me how \u201cflattered\u201d he once was to have his \u201cbottom\u201d grabbed by a senior politician in the Strangers\u2019 bar in the House of Commons.<\/p>\n<p>Rasenberg leans into my dictaphone: \u201cI\u2019ll be honest. Sexual harassment culture I want to expunge, that needs to be gone\u201d. In February, <em>Birmingham Live<\/em>\u00a0reported claims that a Labour candidate sexually harassed Rasenberg at an election count. \u201cTwink\u201d,\u00a0\u201ceye-candy\u201d\u00a0and accusations that Mayor Andy Street only hired Rasenberg because he was \u201cnice to look at\u2019\u201d are just a few examples of the \u201cintentional, weaponized [and] aggressive\u201d comments Rasenberg allegedly received.<\/p>\n<p>Regarding sexual harassment between men, Fabricant proposes the preventative measure that \u201cone bloke can always thump another bloke\u201d, before clarifying that \u201cof course [sexual harassment culture] is wrong. And I\u2019ve never done that and nobody\u2019s ever accused me of doing that\u201d. In 2017, Fabricant\u2019s name was redacted on a list of MPs accused of inappropriate sexual behavior \u2014 an accusation he staunchly denied. In 2022, he was accused of \u201cmaking light\u201d of rape allegations against a Commons colleague. Of Rasenberg\u2019s experience, he declares that if \u201csomebody had called me a twink, I\u2019d have loved it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s time for our curry. Leaving via the garden gate (our host makes a back-passage joke) we venture to his Indian restaurant of choice. \u201cWhat shall we do?\u201d he asks with innocent delight as we settle into its cushioned benches. Fabricant speaks about his childhood with fondness, and at one disconcerting point, he and Rasenberg start conversing in German \u2014 giggling at something they have no intention of translating. Fabricant regales us (<em>auf Englisch<\/em>) with anecdotes: triumphs, scandals, sexcapades, famous politicians and near-misses of varying plausibility. Rasenberg seems impressed. I\u2019m not sure how much I believe.<\/p>\n<p>While on the last train back from Lichfield, it struck me that despite the eclectic conversation and his position of stewardship, Fabricant was unable to land on what the Conservative Party might offer the younger generation. Instead the former party Vice-Chairman blamed cognitive barriers, recalled anecdotes of sexual harassment, and endorsed a rival party to a room full of Tory youth. Edward Gibbon, chronicling the fall of Rome, observed that empires do not typically collapse from external assault but from a slow, self-administered erosion. The Tories, it seems, have been remarkably diligent in this regard.<\/p>\n<p>Still, from what I\u2019ve seen, the Conservative Party is not dying but metamorphosing into something previously inconceivable: a right-wing, queer social club. A Tory source recently informed the<em> Independent<\/em>\u00a0that \u201cKemi [Badenoch] is urging people to be patient behind the scenes\u201d and I get the impression Rasenberg believes he is buying the dip. But I didn\u2019t see anything that convinced me this is indeed a \u201csafe bet\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Weeks later, Rasenberg will fail his bid to gain a seat on Birmingham City Council, losing out to a Green and an ex-Labour Independent. Others I met fare no better in their respective constituencies. \u201cQue sera sera\u201d, Rasenberg will write, responding to the defeat on Instagram. Whatever will be, will be.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/cityflowjournal.com\/?p=170\">Brad Lander\u2019s \u2018No\u2019 to Israel<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sir Michael Fabricant assures me that he isn\u2019t \u201ca teddy bear fetishist\u201d. I glance around the former Conservative MP\u2019s living room at the multiplicity of ursine plushies, each comatosely slouched as if in the aftermath of a particularly raucous picnic. 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