Pork Pie Plot MP Dehenna Davison and her married diplomat lover move in together
Pork Pie Plot MP and her married diplomat lover: Dehenna Davison and the Middle East expert at the Foreign Office move in together as ministers are told of affair
A prominent MP is having an affair with a dashing but married diplomat likened to James BondDehenna Davison, who represents a former Red Wall Labour seat and was linked to the Pork Pie Plot against Boris JohnsonThe 28-year-old is in a relationship with Tony Kay, 49, a Middle East expert at the Foreign Office
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A prominent MP is having an affair with a dashing but married diplomat likened to James Bond.
Dehenna Davison, who represents a former Red Wall Labour seat and was linked to the Pork Pie Plot against Boris Johnson, has previously been very public about her love life.
And the Mail can now reveal the 28-year-old is in a relationship with Tony Kay, 49, a Middle East expert at the Foreign Office.
Awarded an OBE for his work during the Arab Spring uprising, the father of two has been deputy ambassador to Israel and once threw a fancy-dress screening of a Bond film for hundreds of official guests.
Dehenna Davison, 28, is in a relationship with Tony Kay, 49, a Middle East expert at the Foreign Office. Pictured: The couple walking hand in hand
Dehenna Davison MP.Dehenna Davison MP embraces with Tony Kay at Waterloo Station waiting for the train to Ascot, where his marital home is
His latest post is as head of the Arabian peninsula department at the Foreign Office.
His affair with Miss Davison is potentially sensitive given his high-profile position. Foreign Secretary Liz Truss and Middle East minister James Cleverly have been informed about the relationship, a source said.
On Wednesday Miss Davison and Mr Kay were seen walking hand in hand down a quiet street on the south side of the Thames in London. They then walked to Waterloo station where they embraced and kissed for several minutes before he caught a train.
It is believed he was travelling to the million-pound house he and his 47-year-old wife bought three years ago in Ascot, Berkshire.
Brought up on a Sheffield council estate, Miss Davison won a scholarship to private school and was just 13 when her father was killed in a fight at a pub.
When she was 24 she married John Fareham, a Hull councillor 35 years her senior.
In October Miss Davison used a television interview to announce she was bisexual. Pictured: Dehenna Davison with Boris Johnson.
When Ms Davison was 24 she married John Fareham, a Hull councillor 35 years her senior (pictured on Bride and Prejudice)
Miss Davison then starred in the Channel 4 documentary Bride and Prejudice, focusing on their ‘taboo’ age-gap relationship.
After her shock win in the 2019 election for the Conservatives in the former coal mining area of Bishop Auckland, County Durham, she began divorcing Mr Fareham, 63. It is not clear whether that divorce is complete.
Last May she informed parliamentary officials she was in a relationship with Ahzaz Chowdhury, 35, a parliamentary lobbyist. She later announced that the five-week relationship had ended.
In October Miss Davison used a television interview to announce she was bisexual. ‘I went on a few nice dates, dates with a few nice girls and a few nice guys,’ she said. ‘And it was just, you know, fun.’
Ms Davison represents a former Red Wall Labour seat and was linked to the Pork Pie Plot against Boris Johnson (pictured with wife Carrie)
It is believed that Mr Kay and Miss Davison met in July 2019 when she was in a small group of prospective parliamentary candidates on a Conservative Friends of Israel trip. The group visited Gaza and the West Bank.
The pair have been growing closer ever since and he has moved into her expenses-funded home.
A Whitehall source said: ‘The relationship between Dehenna and Tony hasn’t been going on since they met in 2019 – it’s six months. His wife has known for half a year, the kids know, the Foreign Secretary Liz Truss knows, James Cleverley knows, his line manager knows, the permanent secretary knows.
‘He’s done absolutely everything by the book, and kept his line manager informed throughout. He’s going through a divorce process with his wife, he’s still married.
‘It’s not entirely unreasonable for him still to be going to the family home, but his marriage is over. Dehenna’s flat is her flat, and she’s entitled to have whoever she wants in her flat.’
As our man in Calgary, Canada, in 2015 Mr Kay hosted 400 bigwigs at a screening of the Bond film Spectre and the local paper reported: ‘The British consul general in Calgary could easily be the next James Bond.’
A female envoy who has worked with him said: ‘Tony is charming, intelligent and discreet, the perfect diplomat.’
Miss Davison declined to comment, as did Mr Kay.
