The implied grooming. That's the particularly pertinent fact that's missing.
Few people care these days if MPs or prominent public figures have affairs. Or, for that matter, about their LGB status. Where they do fall on their swords is when they lie about it (cf. Matt Hancock).
William Hague refused to discuss any of the stories about him and they faded away. Because, on the face of it, who really cares? Leave mud to dry, and it brushes off.
As to Schofield, I'd rather spare a thought for his affair partner. When they met he was just a kid. There's a serious imbalance of power and status in this situation, and making out it's a non-event baffles me just as much as the bizarre protestations, when a 31-year-old married teacher did a bunk with a 15-year-old schoolkid, that they 'just fell in lurrrrve'.
Utterly sickening. I can well imagine what the mother of that schoolgirl felt, just as I know that if it were MY very young son with whom Schofield had entered into a highly dubious, ill-advised sexual relationship, I would be banned for saying what I'd like to do to him. Could you honestly say you'd be happy with that?
And all this time later, imagine being the younger, more vulnerable participant in this liaison - perhaps one who hasn't even come out yet - and finding yourself at the centre of this media shitstorm.
I sincerely hope the affair partner is okay. Don't really give a stuff about Holly Willoughby: she isn't the culpable party here and is not responsible for what Schofield does. As for Schofield himself? My views are unprintable.