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Sex saga blows lid off Tory sleaze
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Oh! Oh! Yes, Minister!
Another political sex scandal breaks. Yet this time it's not John
Prescott but a 'senior Tory' and his book of lurid confessions.
Marie Woolf investigates
Published: 20 August 2006
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/pol...cle1220481.ece
An explicit book telling of the athletic, complex and serial sexual
shenanigans of a "senior Tory politician" is about to be published.
It promises to be about as welcome to David Cameron's newmodel
Conservatives as a cloudburst at a true-blue garden party.
And, with the author coyly hiding behind the by-line "Anonymous", all
Westminster is now agog with speculation about his identity. In the
words of one observer: "He's either got a very fertile imagination,
or an awful lot of people are going to be wishing he kept the cap on
his pen."
The memoir, provocatively entitled Unzipped, recounts encounters with
prostitutes in hotel rooms, orgies, and flirtations with girls half
his age. With echoes of Alan Clark's diaries, the author describes
how he buys presents for his lovers in the House of Commons gift
shop, identical "baby doll" basques for two in a lingerie shop near
Parliament and visits to brothels at party conferences.
But the identity of the author is a closely-guarded secret and
already the hunt is on at Westminster to unmask the serial Tory
seducer, who reveals himself as a 46-year-old Tory councillor, former
parliamentary candidate and political lobbyist.
The married politician, known simply as "Anonymous", recounts a
string of sexual adventures, in explicit detail, including watching a
male friend being buggered by a "lady-boy" prostitute.
The book is so lurid that the publisher, Virgin, has printed an
"Adults Only" warning on its cover telling parents this political
memoir is not suitable for aspirant teenage politicians.
Billed as "Scandalous sex secrets: the very private journal of a
public servant", it describes its author meetings with MPs, lobbying
to get motions put down in Parliament and tells how his hopes of
becoming an MP were dashed by the 1997 Labour landslide.
He describes flirting with "a rather pretty" political researcher he
is having lunch with in Portcullis House, the new parliamentary
building, before heading off for a seedy encounter with a Czech
prostitute in Harrow. "You would be forgiven for thinking it is
fiction, but the events in this book are all true," said a
spokeswoman for the publisher. "Unzipped is a fascinating insight
into what really goes on among politicians, and inside the mind of a
middle-aged man."
The author himself lays a few clues to his identity, saying he "is an
insider, a very minor player among those who make the rules and
uphold the value systems you have to live by. To meet me you, would
correctly guess that I am in early middle age, but beyond that I bear
remarkably few distinguishing features. I am neither fat nor thin,
neither plain nor good-looking, neither ideologically left wing nor
right".
He adds that his motivation to write the book was that "after a
lifetime in politics I have fallen out of love with the establishment
and broken free from the shackles of social convention."
Last week, there was talk at Westminster that the author had not done
enough to cover his tracks. So recent are some of his social
encounters, which begin in 2002, that some political figures believe
they remember them. They believe the author may also have stood for
the European Parliament and is a "wet" Conservative with pro-European
links.
The whispers are that his vivid description of his attempt to seduce
a young beautiful political Labour hack whom he admits is "someone
young enough to be my daughter" contained enough details to out him.
Thinly-disguised references to New Labour haunts have already been
identified. A party he describes at the Cosmopolitan Club, is
believed to be the Commonwealth Club, a central London restaurant
popular with Labour ministers.
While his description of how his quarry changed political allegiances
from Labour to the Tories has already got tongues wagging among
Labour hacks who believe they know who she is - not least because he
includes the giveaway detail that her parents, who are divorced, both
live on the same street.
When The Independent on Sunday put the name of a senior political
lobbyist, former Tory candidate and councillor to the publisher
yesterday it refused to confirm or deny his identify.
"We are not saying whether it is or isn't him," said a spokeswoman.
But, colleagues of this figure, well-known in political circles, have
for some reason recently been made to sign gagging clauses preventing
them from talking to the press.
The memoir, a page-turning romp which leaves so little to the
imagination it could be a bonkbuster novel, could prove highly
damaging if the identity of the author is revealed, not least because
of the "kiss and tell" nature of many of his revelations could also
reveal the identity of other figures he describes, having affairs and
liaisons with prostitutes.
The father of two describes how at a political dinner his wife told
him she would give him her blessing to having sex with other women.
Perhaps she did not realise how enthusiastically he would fulfill her
wishes.
Extract: 'In love, and she's young enough to be my daughter'
"On our 20th wedding anniversary and at the age of 46, I fall
ridiculously, hopelessly, head-over-heels in love with someone young
enough to be my daughter: 'Angela'.
It is the birthday of Paul, 'New Labour' and therefore a political
opponent, but also a friend. Together with a fellow Conservative,
John, I join him and his party in a very trendy wine bar that's all
late 20th-century Scandinavian minimalism amid Victorian splendour.
On one of the sofas sits Angela... Do I believe in love at first
sight? The answer has to be 'yes' though I do think it's conceptually
more complicated than that. The initial reaction has to be reinforced
by interaction to turn into love. Nonetheless, the attraction is
instant and massive. When she stands, I can scarcely take my eyes off
her; she has the figure of a model topped by the fine, even features
of an English rose, framed by long chestnut hair."
Taken from 'Unzipped', by Anonymous, published by Virgin Books at
£12.99
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