But what will have tongues wagging is her revelation in a full-page piece in the Telegraph on Tuesday that she was once propositioned by a national newspaper editor, even though he knew she was in a serious relationship and was not interested.
She recalls an incident at a party political conference. “A man who was then the editor of a national newspaper started propositioning me in the bar, despite knowing I was in a long-term relationship, and despite me making it patently clear that I wasn’t interested … But the minute I got up to my room, the phone rang.
It was the very same editor asking if could share my room because he had omitted to book himself into a hotel.” And so the guessing game shall begin. There aren’t that many national newspapers and there aren’t that many editors.