'I'M GAY I'M LEAVING MY WIFE' : TORY PRISONS MINISTER !!!!!!

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'I'm gay and I'm leaving my wife': Tory prisons minister Crispin Blunt stuns MPs as he ends marriage of 20 years
By Tim Shipman
28th August 2010

Prisons minister Crispin Blunt has left his wife of 20 years to 'come to terms with his homosexuality'.
The MP for Reigate made his announcement yesterday after what friends described as a '30-year journey' in which he has had to 'wrestle with his sexuality'.
Mr Blunt, 50, is the 11th Conservative MP to go public with his homosexuality since international development minister Alan Duncan 'came out' in 2002.

But he is the first since the party entered government. Until yesterday, Mr Blunt - a former Army officer and Tory whip - was best known as the uncle of the actress Emily Blunt.
He also hit the headlines last month when he suggested that taxpayers' money should be spent on parties attended by criminals in prisons.
In a statement issued to the press and to his Tory colleagues, he said: ‘Crispin Blunt wishes to make it known that he has separated from his wife Victoria.
‘He decided to come to terms with his homosexuality and explained the position to his family.

'The conse­quence is this separation.
‘There is no third party involve­ment, but this is difficult for his fam­ily and he hopes for understanding and support for them.’
Mr Blunt apparently told his wife and children, Claudia, 18, and Fred­erick, 16, around two weeks ago.

The news was a profound shock to them.
Yesterday Mrs Blunt’s brother Barry Jenkins said on his Facebook profile: ‘Been quite a week.’
Mr Blunt’s admission was also a surprise to many in Westminster.
Friends said that as the son of an Army officer, who had a successful military career before entering Par­liament in 1997, Mr Blunt had not come to terms with his sexuality.

One Tory MP who knew of Mr Blunt’s decision to go public said: ‘Crispin is a guy who has had to wrestle with this for 30 or 40 years and had quite a conventional life.
‘He hit 50 and suddenly realised that was not who he was.
‘He’s a straight-acting person. He’s not out on the town, going to gay bars. It’s a personal journey.’

Mr Blunt has previously been a thorn in the side of the Tory leader­ship. In 2003 he called for Iain Dun­can Smith to quit as leader, the first Tory MP to do so.
After his prison parties announce­ment, Downing Street officials made it clear that he had spoken out of turn, indicating that he would be fired in David Cameron’s next reshuf­fle and describing him as a ‘dead man walking’.

One insider said Mr Blunt would soon ‘be spending more time with his niece’s acting career’.
But his announcement is likely to make it harder for Mr Cameron to sack him. Last night Downing Street and Mr Blunt’s constituency association rallied round him.
A Downing Street spokesman said: ‘This is an entirely personal issue. It’s not a matter for the Government. The Prime Minister continues to have confidence in Crispin Blunt.’

Andy Mountney, chairman of Mr Blunt’s Reigate constitu­ency association, said: ‘It’s a personal matter at a time when Crispin and his family have to work through things in as much peace and quiet as possible. He maintains my support and that of the association.'
Mr Blunt is open to criticism from homosexual rights groups that he has opposed landmark gay rights legislation, including gay adoption and the reduc­tion of the gay age of consent to 16. He was absent for ten other votes on similar issues.
He voted in favour of civil partnerships and in favour of outlawing discrimination on grounds of sexual orientation.

Iain Dale, the gay Tory blogger, said: ‘At last he decided to be true to himself and face up to the man he is. For anyone to do that at the age of 50 is a very big deal.
‘I did it at 40, and I can tell you that it was the most traumatic thing I have ever done – and I wasn’t married with children.’
Chris Bryant, the Labour frontbencher once pictured on a gay dating website in his underpants, sent a message of support, saying ‘Good luck to Crispin Blunt’ on the social networking site Twitter.
Mr Blunt’s announcement comes three months after Lib­eral Democrat Treasury Chief Secretary David Laws said he was gay and resigned from the Cabinet.


'Ordinary' minister's five weeks of turmoilBarely a month ago he was just a minister with an apparently conventional Tory background and unremarkable home life.
Any summary of the career of Crispin Blunt would have been short, mentioning the Army, university and a fairly seamless move into politics.

His family life too, was uncontroversial. He married Victoria in 1990 and the marriage produced two children, a boy and a girl.

Indeed the most remarkable fact about Crispin Blunt’s life wasn’t actually about him: his niece is Emily Blunt, the Golden Globe-winning actress and star of the film The Devil Wears Prada.

But in the space of little over five weeks, Mr Blunt has seen first his political and now his personal life implode in dramatic fashion.
At the end of July, he provoked outrage by revoking an order which banned prisoners from having parties in jail.
In the same speech, he indicated that some of the toughest sentences available to judges – which allow dangerous inmates to be locked up indefinitely – would be scrapped.

The following day he was slapped down by 10 Downing Street and both policies were promptly disowned.

At the time, Westminster observ­ers speculated on the reasons for Mr Blunt’s apparently deliberate attempt to provoke contro­versy and opprobrium. But no one, apart from him, could know the depths of his inner turmoil.

Mr Blunt, 50, attended Wellington College, Durham University and Sandhurst, where he won the Queen’s Medal.

After the Royal Military Academy, he was commissioned into the 13th/18th Royal Hus­sars (Queen Mary’s Own) in 1979 and served until 1990 as a troop leader, operations officer, and armoured reconnaissance squadron commander, leaving as captain.

Following an unsuccessful bid for Parliament in 1992 and a stint as a special adviser on Defence and Foreign Affairs, he became the Conservative MP for Reigate in 1997.
His only mention as a member of the Opposition front bench came when he resigned, in 2003, in protest at the party leadership of Iain Duncan Smith. His appointment as prisons minister barely merited a mention.

Now he is memorable for a stint in Government of barely three months that has seen more crisis than most have in a lifetime.


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I am not surprised. Researchers say that at least 10% of any given population will be homosexual. A few of them will inevitably end up in government.