UK official 'fed up' of gay rumors
September 3, 2010, Friday
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BRITAIN'S Foreign Secretary William Hague said yesterday he had gone public to deny rumors he was gay and in a relationship with an aide because he and his wife were fed up of the allegations.
Suggestions about Hague's sexuality surfaced in recent days after newspapers published pictures of the foreign secretary with his aide Christopher Myers and reported the men had shared a hotel room during campaigning for May's election.
Myers quit on Wednesday and Hague later issued a highly personal statement denying they had been involved in an improper relationship.
"My wife and I really felt we'd had enough of the circulation of untrue allegations, particularly on the internet, and at some point you have to speak out about that and put the record straight," he told a joint news conference with Germany's foreign minister in London.
Hague rejected accusations that Myers, 25, had not been qualified to hold the post of special adviser. "Any suggestion that his appointment was due to an improper relationship between us is utterly false, as is any suggestion that I have ever been involved in a relationship with any man," said Hague, 49.
"This speculation seems to stem from the fact that whilst campaigning before the election we occasionally shared twin hotel rooms. Neither of us would have done so if we had thought that it in any way meant or implied something else."
Prime Minister David Cameron has given Hague his "100 percent" support.
Suggestions about Hague's sexuality surfaced in recent days after newspapers published pictures of the foreign secretary with his aide Christopher Myers and reported the men had shared a hotel room during campaigning for May's election.
Myers quit on Wednesday and Hague later issued a highly personal statement denying they had been involved in an improper relationship.
"My wife and I really felt we'd had enough of the circulation of untrue allegations, particularly on the internet, and at some point you have to speak out about that and put the record straight," he told a joint news conference with Germany's foreign minister in London.
Hague rejected accusations that Myers, 25, had not been qualified to hold the post of special adviser. "Any suggestion that his appointment was due to an improper relationship between us is utterly false, as is any suggestion that I have ever been involved in a relationship with any man," said Hague, 49.
"This speculation seems to stem from the fact that whilst campaigning before the election we occasionally shared twin hotel rooms. Neither of us would have done so if we had thought that it in any way meant or implied something else."
Prime Minister David Cameron has given Hague his "100 percent" support.
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