Scandal may reflect badly
NZPA-Reuter London Britain’s ruling Conservatives could have their annual conference upstaged this week by publication of memoirs by a one-time mistress to the party’s former chairman and favoured Cabinet member, national newspapers reported yesterday.
According to reports, there was considerable nervousness over a prospect of serialised “kiss-and-tell” writings in the mass-circu-lation “Mirror” as the party met in Blackpool.
The 1983 revelation of an affair between Cecil Parkinson, then Trade and Industry Minister, and his House of Commons secretary, Sara Keays, cast a pall over that year’s Conservative conference and forced Mr Parkinson to quit his Cabinet and party posts. The papers said Miss Keays, who bore Mr Parkinson’s child and charged he broke a pledge to leave his wife to marry her, was negotiating to sell her story to the Mirror for more than $250,000.
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