Former Conservative Chief Whip has shared his explosive diary of his time at the top of the party, including an insane story about a Member of Parliament who was trapped in a brothel by a Russian spy
Former Chief Whip Simon Hart has shared his explosive diary, including the time one MP called him in the middle of the night in need of an extraction mission.
The unnamed MP phoned Hart at 2:45 in the morning in a panic and told him that he was in a Bayswater brothel with 12 naked women and CCTV. He said he had run out of money and needed help.
The 2019’er, a nickname for Tories elected in the 2019 election, believed he was being honeytrapped by a Russian agent who he met leaving the Carlton Club, a private members club frequented by Tory top dogs.
Hart later told Rishi Sunak, then Prime Minister, about the incident but wrote that “poor Rishi” doesn’t believe “such things happen.”
The Times is currently serialising elements of Hart’s new book which recounts his diaries throughout his time working under Sunak.
The former Chief Whip wrote: “The phone rings at 2.45am from a 2019’er, clearly pissed but just about coherent: “Hi, chief. Hope I haven’t woken you.” (It’s 2.45am, FFS.)
Me: “What’s up?”
Him: “I’m stuck in a brothel in Bayswater and I’ve run out of money.”
Me: “Go on…”
Him: “I met a woman as I left the Carlton Club who offered me a drink, but I now think she is a KGB agent. She wants £500 and has left me in a room with 12 naked women and a CCTV.”
Me: “Give me a few moments and I will call you back.”
Bloody hell, this is a mess. I ring Spad [special adviser] Emma. She offers to leave her house and go personally to Bayswater on an extraction mission.
I suggest not (she sounded rather disappointed).
Instead, we devise a plan to send a taxi, extract our man, return him to the safety of his own hotel. I go back to sleep.
4.10am. Phone rings again.
Me: “Are you back safely?”
Him: “Yes, but you will never guess what happened next.” (The truest thing he said all evening.)
Me: “Go on…”
Him: “Well, I slipped out of the room and saw the taxi Emma ordered across the road, so I legged it over and jumped in. However, it turned out it was a different taxi being driven by an Afghan agent called Ahmed.”
Me: “So…”
Him: “Well, he demanded £3,000 for a blow job.”
Me: “And?”
Him: “I legged it back to the hotel and locked the door.”
Simon Hart’s book, Ungovernable, hits the shelves on February 27.
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