Former Tory chief whip Simon Hart revealed an excruiating exchange with a Tory MP who said he was in a room with 12 naked women. He will release his tell-all diary this month
A top Tory has recounted a panicked phone call he received at 2.45am from an MP saying he was in a brothel after being entrapped by a KGB spy.
Simon Hart, who was chief whip under Rishi Sunak, said the Conservative politician said he was in a room with 12 naked women – and was being recorded on CCTV. The MP rang Mr Hart saying he had “run out of money”, an astonishing diary entry states.
Mr Hart said he got the call in the early hours from an unnamed ‘2019’er’ – an MP who entered Parliament when Boris Johnson was PM. The distraught Tory allegedly told him: “I’m stuck in a brothel in Bayswater and I’ve run out of money.”
And it got worse. He continued: “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.”
The astonishing exchange came to light as Mr Hart prepares to publish his diaries, which are being serialised in The Times. He said the MP was “clearly p***** but just about coherent”. He said he thought to himself: “Bloody hell, this is a mess.”
Mr Hart recalled ringing a female special advisor who offered to rush round to the brothel on an “extraction mission”. The chief whip decided against that, instead ordering a taxi to “extract our man” and “return him to the safety of his own hotel”.
But Mr Hart said he got another call at 4.10am from the same MP. He said he “slipped out of the room” and saw the taxi – only to claim it was “being driven by an Afghan agent called Ahmed”.
He said this man demanded £3,000 to perform a sex act, so the MP “legged it back to the hotel and locked the door”. When he told Mr Sunak about the incident, Mr Hart recalled, “poor Rishi” could barely believe “such things happen”.
Mr Hart’s book, Ungovernable, will be published on Februrary 27.
