He was replaced as Health Secretary the same day by.
She said: 'He actually overslept and hot-footed it to the train but didn't make it to Twickenham in time from Oxford, so had to get off the train at Reading, find a pub, watch the first half in a pub and then go to a phone box outside and report in.
The ex-minister and his lover, who left their respective partners to be together, checked into room 206 of the Mountain Villars Lodge under assumed names.