'Demons Are After Me" - British Minister Resigns After Nude Photos Went Viral

Tory MP Brooks Newmark had a two-year affair with a single mother he bombarded with naked pictures and told her 'I am desperate for sex with you', Mailonline revealed today. Former minister, 56, a father of five, yesterday issued a grovelling apology after being caught texting explicit photographs of himself for a second time. Mr Newmark left his post as minister for civil society last month after he was exposed as having exchanged lewd photographs with a male journalist posing as a glamorous 20-year-old Tory PR woman.

Today it emerged that he 'seduced' an unnamed mother on Facebook behind his wife's back, sending her up to forty naked selfies in the past year, his lover said. According to The Sun one text read: 'I am desperate for sex with you — it's been too long. At least a pic would keep the demons at bay!'

It is alleged he also invited her to his Westminster office and to his home, after he offered to pay the rail fare. His wife, innocently caught up in a humiliating sex scandal has moved out of their constituency home in Essex, it has emerged. It has now emerged that he also sent a series of explicit ‘selfies’ to a single mother he met online. In one photograph he is seen posing naked while grinning in what appears to be a hotel bathroom.

As a result of his conduct, Mr Newmark wrote to the Prime Minister on Saturday evening announcing he is to quit in May at the General Election as he tries to rescue his family life.

‘I was the man who had everything. I made a fortune, married a beautiful wife, had five children, and then fulfilled my lifelong ambition to be a politician,’ he wrote in the Mail on Sunday.

‘Now my political career is in ruins. I have traumatised my family and let down my constituents and my colleagues. Many will regard me as a failure. And it is true: behind the outward facade of success and achievement, I have been battling demons – and losing to them. I craved adrenaline and risk. Stress at work drove me to increasingly erratic behaviour. My friends warned me that I was cracking up. I ignored them.’

Mr Newmark confessed to ‘a series of flirtations’ with women on social media and said he has ‘no one to blame but myself and take full responsibility for my own actions’.

He added: ‘Deep inside, I knew I was playing with fire. Now it has consumed me and my family. I want to concentrate on slaying those demons – making me, I hope, a better husband and father.’

 Sources: The Independent / DailyMail UK / The Sun