Wife of shamed Mp moves out of family home

The wife of the Tory MP caught up in a humiliating sex scandal has moved out of their family home, it has emerged.

Former minister Brooks Newmark, 56, a father of five, yesterday issued a grovelling apology after being caught texting explicit pictures of himself for a second time.

He announced he would quit the Commons at the next election, adding that he had ‘traumatised’ his family with ‘bizarre and abhorrent’ behaviour.

He would be moving in to a psychiatric facility to battle his ‘demons’, he said.

Yesterday, Mr Newmark’s wife Lucy, 52, appeared to have moved from the family’s mansion near Braintree, Essex, to their £7million London home.

Mrs Newmark, the daughter of the military historian Sir John Keegan, was seen alone at the four-bedroom Belgravia townhouse yesterday.

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.

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, 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.