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Sheridan: The lies, the plotting, the real conspiracy

Tommy Sheridan’s life changed for ever at a meeting of the Scottish Socialist Party on November 9, 2004. It was there he faced a dilemma: should he confirm or deny that he had visited Cupid’s sex club in Manchester?

The then convener of the SSP gambled by confessing to colleagues, a decision he later rued on tape as "the biggest mistake of my life".