It’s true, being a Conservative makes you a prick, whatever your nationality:
Tories support MP who had affair
Mr Gray has been North Wilts MP since 1997
James Gray, a Conservative MP who cheated on his wife, was reselected as constituency candidate on Tuesday.
In a ballot of the North Wiltshire Conservative Association, the 52-year-old received the backing of the party members.
He had called for voters to judge him on his record of constituency work.
The father-of-three admitted having an affair while his wife, Sarah, 51, was being treated for breast cancer. They are now divorcing.
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It gets even nastier when you look at at the background.
The cancer-stricken wife of a Tory MP who left her for another woman has launched a devastating attack on her husband for publicly belittling her fight against the disease.
Sarah Gray, the wife of Wiltshire North MP James Gray, has written to David Cameron saying she is ‘deeply hurt’ by her husband’s behaviour since he left her for married mother-of-three Philippa Mayo, a fellow foxhunting supporter.
Mrs Gray claims her husband ‘undermined’ her cancer ordeal by claiming she merely had treatment for ‘pre-cancerous cells’.
“I cannot ignore the slight he has dealt me,” she told the Conservative leader. “It only serves to show the lack of understanding he had of the physical and psychological effects of the cancer.”
The row erupted following a Mail on Sunday article two weeks ago that revealed that 51-year-old Mrs Gray was considering taking work as a cleaner to make ends meet after their acrimonious break-up.
The MP lodged a complaint about the report with the newspaper industry watchdog, denying his wife was ‘cancer-stricken’ when he left her -but it was his decision to post the letter of complaint on the Conservative Home website that caused further upset to his wife.
Mrs Gray has now also complained to the Press Complaints Commission, objecting to the way her husband made ‘personal statements about me without my permission, many of which I disagree with’. A copy of her letter was also sent to Mr Cameron, local Tory officials and friends
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“He misunderstands what I went through,” she said. “He talks of “pre-cancerous cells”, but re-reading my surgeon’s letters, the words “pre-cancerous” do not appear. “Invasive ductal carcinoma”, “three breast cancers”, “bilateral mastectomy” do appear.
“I do not think that the NHS would have given me two operations, two MRI scans, six courses of chemotherapy and 30 sessions of radiotherapy and now treatment for lymphoedema for nothing.”
Far from playing down her cancer, Mrs Gray claims her husband did the precise opposite at the last Election when he was fighting to hold on to his marginal seat.
“James did ask an audience to pray for me during the Election campaign in 2005,” she says:
“This was the first time he used my illness without my permission. It generated a lot of Press interest. I also postponed my operation for a week as it clashed with Election Day. James must not make light of my illness.”
She describes the way she fought her cancer aided by the couple’s three children as well as the ‘amazing’ team at Bath’s Royal United Hospital and a Haven Trust support centre in Fulham, West London.
She added that she supported her husband’s political career as well as maintaining her family responsibilities despite her health problems.
“In all my varied roles, I kept the show on the road. I cooked for and hosted James’s political supper club for 35 people a week after my last chemotherapy for “pre-cancerous cells”,’ she says bitterly.
“It has been a difficult few months and now James has thrust the issue of my cancer into the spotlight again.”
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But Mrs Gray is not alone in criticising her husband’s conduct. Mrs Mayo’s husband, a 43-year-old criminal barrister, was distraught when he found out his 41-year-old wife was cheating on him and told the MP he was ‘not fit for office’.
Mr Gray declined to comment.
Well he would, wouldn’t he?
It tells you all you need to know about the actual truth of David Cameron’s new ‘kinder gentler’ Tories when they reselect a man like this to represent them.
