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* Jerry Hayes was " outed " as a homosexual by the News of the World.

with the headline " TORY MP 2-TIMED WIFE WITH UNDER-AGE GAY LOVER ".

Hayes had met Young Conservative Paul Stone at the 1991 Conservative conference and that same evening, " committed a lewd act which was in breach of the law at the time ".

Stone had been 18 at the time, whilst the legal age for homosexual sex in 1991 was 21.

He had previously supported Section 28 and other anti-gay legislation.

( 1997 )