Married Tory leadership candidate Stephen Crabb sent 'lewd messages' to young woman on campaign trail

Lewd: Mr Crabb allegedly sent sexually explicit messages to a young woman
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Jamie Bullen11 July 2016

Conservative leadership candidate Stephen Crabb allegedly sent a string of lewd messages to a young woman while campaigning on strong family values.

The married Work and Pensions Secretary was reportedly engaged in sexually explicit messages in the run-up to the EU referendum.

The exchanges were sent to the Times newspaper by a source who was concerned by “hypocrisy” after Mr Crabb based his failed Tory leadership bid on being a family man with values.

In one message, allegedly sent last month, he told the young woman he wanted to kiss her “everywhere” and begged her to call him.

He also apparently described in detail a sex act he wanted to perform, to which the woman asked him what he was going to do about his “downstairs situation”.

The MP is said to have met the woman several years ago through his political work and became close to her after messaging her through WhatsApp.

Mr Crabb also reportedly told the woman that MPs were “risk takers” and that they faced a “toxic mix” of adrenaline, attention and time away from their families.

When asked about his behaviour, Mr Crabb made no comment but did defend his remarks about the risk-taking habits of MPs.

He said: “I’ve got nothing to add to that. I mean that’s true observation, isn’t it?”

Mr Crabb met his wife Beatrice Monnier while studying at university in Bristol. They married soon after they graduated and she works in his constituency office in Pembrokeshire.

On Wednesday, Mr Crabb withdrew from the Tory leadership contest and backed frontrunner Theresa May after he finished fourth in the opening ballot.

During his leadership bid he joked “there are different ways you can become a household name. I’m doing it the right way hopefully”.

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