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Contents:

• WIFE 'TRMATISED' AFTER TOP TORY MP CRISP BLUNT ADMS: 'I'M GAY'
• CONSERVATIVE MISTER CRISP BLUNT REVEALS HE IS GAY
• CRISP BLUNT: FORMER ARY MAN WHO LEFT WIFE OF 20 YEARS WHEN HE ME OUT AS GAY
• CRISP BLUNT REVEALS HE IS GAY AND SEPARAT OM WIFE
• GAY TORY MP FIGHTS BACK TEARS OVER 'DAMAGE' HE SUFFERED HIDG HIS SEXUALY THE ARMY
• CRISP BLUNT ANNOUNC HE IS GAY AND HAS LEFT HIS WIFE
• VETERAN GAY TORY MP CRISP BLUNT TO STAND DOWN AT NEXT ELECTN AFTER NTROVERSY
• CRISP BLUNT’S STORY: THE EVOLUTN OF A GAY CONSERVATIVE PARLIAMENT
• GAY TORY MP CRISP BLUNT FEATS ATTEMPT TO SELECT HIM
• CRISP BLUNT: GAY RIGHTS CHAMPN?
• PICTURED: GAY TORY CRISP BLUNT'S 'PERFECT WIFE' VICTORIA

WIFE 'TRMATISED' AFTER TOP TORY MP CRISP BLUNT ADMS: 'I'M GAY'

Friends say he realised that his ntug 'ce' to his fay and nstuents over his sexualy was more damagg than the admissn he was gay 'She is pletely trmatised, ' said a source. ' Mr Blunt, MP for Reigate Surrey sce 1997, went to such lengths to nceal his homosexualy that he risked claims of hypocrisy. And a Parliamentary bate, he once claimed homosexualy is 'not equivalent to heterosexualy'.

To cri of 'shame' om Labour MPs, Mr Blunt, 50, said: 'It is also clear that there is a much greater strand of homosexualy than of heterosexualy which pends for s gratifitn on the exploatn of youth. ' Friends have revealed Mr Blunt took the cisn to e clean about his sexualy after Liberal Democrat Treasury mister David Laws was forced to rign earlier this year when emerged that he had been payg taxpayers money rent to his gay lover.

They say Mr Blunt realised that his ntug 'ce' to his fay and nstuents over his sexualy was more damagg than the admissn he was gay.

CONSERVATIVE MISTER CRISP BLUNT REVEALS HE IS GAY

'The Laws episo was cisive, ' says an acquatance of Mr Blunt, 'bee Crisp saw that the fire storm which scend was nothg to do wh Laws' homosexualy and everythg to do wh his ce. 'In David Cameron's Conservative Party now 's not exactly a problem to be gay.

CRISP BLUNT: FORMER ARY MAN WHO LEFT WIFE OF 20 YEARS WHEN HE ME OUT AS GAY

'Cameron won't sack a gay bee he wants more gays the bet. Image ptn, Mr Blunt said he hoped for privacy while he alt wh the "difficult" issu facg his fayConservative mister Crisp Blunt has disclosed that he is gay and has separated om his Blunt, who is prisons mister the aln ernment, said he had "cid to e to terms wh his homosexualy" a statement, he said the move was "difficult" for his fay and hoped for their "unrstandg and support" has been MP for Reigate sce 1997, before which he served the Armed Forc for many years. Crisp Blunt, the Tory MP and prisons mister, has separated om his wife and is "g to terms wh his homosexualy", he has said no one else was volved the separatn, and appealed for his fay's privacy to be rpected.

CRISP BLUNT REVEALS HE IS GAY AND SEPARAT OM WIFE

He cid to e to terms wh his homosexualy and explaed the posn to his fay. Crisp Blunt spoke movgly about beg gay the armed forc, as MPs discsed the landmark Etherton Report to the historil treatment of gay people the aryVio LoadgVio UnavailableCrisp Blunt fights back tears as he reunts time army as a gay manA Tory MP fought back tears today as he talked about the “damage” he suffered by hidg his sexualy while servg the Army.

Former mister Crisp Blunt, 63, repeatedly psed as he spoke a parliamentary bate about a report to the treatment of gay people the armed forc. Rishi Sunak formally apologised earlier to thoands of troops kicked out of the armed forc for beg gay. While homosexualy was crimalised 1967, anyone who was gay the UK ary before 2000 faced beg booted out or had to hi their secret.

GAY TORY MP FIGHTS BACK TEARS OVER 'DAMAGE' HE SUFFERED HIDG HIS SEXUALY THE ARMY

The former mister was speakg as Defence Secretary Ben Wallace ma a statement about the treatment of gay people the armed forc. The MP for Reigate, Surrey, me out as gay 2010 as he spl om his wife. 'I'm gay and I'm leavg my wife': Tory prisons mister Crisp Blunt stuns MPs as he ends marriage of 20 years Prisons mister Crisp Blunt has left his wife of 20 years to 'e to terms wh his homosexualy'.

Mr Blunt, 50, is the 11th Conservative MP to go public wh his homosexualy sce ternatnal velopment mister Alan Dunn 'me out' 2002. Separatn: Crisp Blunt has announced he has left his wife of 20 years to e to terms wh his homosexualy But he is the first sce the party entered ernment. ‘He cid to e to terms wh his homosexualy and explaed the posn to his fay.

CRISP BLUNT ANNOUNC HE IS GAY AND HAS LEFT HIS WIFE

He’s not out on the town, gog to gay bars. ’ Support: Openly gay Labour ontbencher Chris Bryant wished Mr Blunt luck via Twter Andy Mountney, chairman of Mr Blunt’s Reigate nstuency associatn, said: ‘It’s a personal matter at a time when Crisp and his fay have to work through thgs as much peace and quiet as possible. 'Mr Blunt is open to cricism om homosexual rights groups that he has opposed landmark gay rights legislatn, cludg gay adoptn and the rctn of the gay age of nsent to 16.

Ia Dale, the gay Tory blogger, said: ‘At last he cid to be te to himself and face up to the man he is. ’Chris Bryant, the Labour ontbencher once pictured on a gay datg webse his unrpants, sent a msage of support, sayg ‘Good luck to Crisp Blunt’ on the social workg se Blunt’s announcement three months after Liberal Democrat Treasury Chief Secretary David Laws said he was gay and rigned om the Cabet. Crisp Blunt, one of the UK’s most proment gay MPs, has been a stnch fenr of LGBT+ rights parliament.

VETERAN GAY TORY MP CRISP BLUNT TO STAND DOWN AT NEXT ELECTN AFTER NTROVERSY

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CRISP BLUNT’S STORY: THE EVOLUTN OF A GAY CONSERVATIVE PARLIAMENT

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GAY TORY MP CRISP BLUNT FEATS ATTEMPT TO SELECT HIM

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CRISP BLUNT: GAY RIGHTS CHAMPN?

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PICTURED: GAY TORY CRISP BLUNT'S 'PERFECT WIFE' VICTORIA

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