Not just a friend, just a good guy, a friend for a very long time. Thats what the president said. And the two of course do seem particularly close in photo after photo. Here they are greeting the tesla ceo, elon musk, in the state dining room as trump signs an Executive Order about the oil pipeline industry. And this, trump speaking on the phone with vladimir putin, and who is there . Steve bannon. And then when they worked together in the white house, check this out, their offices, steps apart. In fact the only person who sat closer to the president of the United States than bannon was President Trumps soninlaw, jared kushner. Even the official chief of staff, reince priebus, sat farther away from President Trump. And of course as trump knows well from his real estate days, power is all about location, location, location. Slamming bannon, though, was only part of the white house operation today. The Press Secretary tried to rip the book itself and its author, Michael Wolff. Could you
while, as a young man, that these two things about you. 17 while, as a young man, that these two things about you. . . two things about you. ? it s one ofthe two things about you. ? it s one of the reasons two things about you. ? it s one of the reasons why two things about you. ? it s one of the reasons why i two things about you. ? it s one of the reasons why i didn t - of the reasons why i didn t actually. it wasn tjust of the reasons why i didn t actually. it wasn t just that i delayed coming out until i was at university. it took me years and years to accept myself and to reconcile these two parts of my life and identity, ifit and who i am. and in the end, i came to a conclusion that this wasn t a phase and it wasn t a choice, and i had been asked, especially when you do school visits and often young people will ask you, is this nature versus nurture? the only way i can describe this as i spent years and years choosing not to be gay and trying desperately hard not to be bec
until i was at university, it took me years and years to accept myself and to reconcile these two parts of my life and identity my faith and who i am. and in the end, i came to a conclusion that this wasn t a phase and it wasn t a choice, and i ve been asked, especially when you do school visits and often young people will ask you, is this nature or is this nurture? and i said the only way i can describe this is that i spent years and years choosing not to be gay and trying desperately hard not to be because of my faith, and in the end, i came to the conclusion that i had been made in this way and that i have not made a choice to be gay this isjust who i am. and i think i have been made in god s image in that sense and i have reconciled my faith and and i have reconciled my faith and sexuality, but that took a long time. well, it s interesting, because you will know that for some people, they think there s a continuum between the massive change that s happened in attitudes and
is deeply personal but actually becomes increasingly political. which you ve referred to your sexuality. you ve talked about your partner, joe. we ll come to the politics in a sec. let s just talk because you have talked openly about this in the past. given your christianity, was that a conflict? did you feel for a while, as a young man, that these two things about you where in conflict? massively. it s one of the reasons why i didn t actually. it wasn tjust that i delayed coming out until i was at university. it took me years and years to accept myself and to reconcile these two parts of my life and identity my faith and who i am. and in the end, i came to a conclusion that this wasn t a phase and it wasn t a choice, and i d been asked, especially when you do school visits and often young people will ask you, is this nature or is this nurture?
my faith and who i am. and in the end, i came to a conclusion that this wasn t a phase and it wasn t a choice, and i d been asked, especially when you do school visits and often young people will ask you, is this nature or is this nurture? the only way i can describe this is that i spent years and years choosing not to be gay and trying desperately hard not to be because of my faith, and in the end i came to the conclusion that i had been made in this way and that i have not made a choice to be gay this isjust who i am. i think i have been made in god s image in that sense and i have reconciled my faith and sexuality. but that took a long time. it s interesting, because you will know that for some people, they think there s a continuum between the massive change that s happened in attitudes and the law towards gay rights and a deeply divisive debate