政治家David Mellor的生平簡介?

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David Mellor








Scandal
In July 1992, Mellor was involved in a kiss-and-tell scandal in which actress Antonia de Sancha sold her story of her affair with Mellor for £30,000. Their conversation had been recorded without his consent, but it turned out that it was not illegal to bug your own property, as de Sancha's landlord had done. The publicist Max Clifford included an unfounded, and almost certainly untrue fact in the story that Mellor had asked her to make love to him whilst he was dressed in his Chelsea F.C. kit, a story which found its way on to the front page of The Sun newspaper.
He survived in office after this, though it allowed Fleet Street and the tabloids to round on Mellor. Stories emmerged that he had enjoyed a free holiday in August 1990 as the guest of Mona Bauwens, a daughter of the Palestinian Liberation Organisation official Jaweed al-Ghussein, and another paid for by the ruler of Abu Dhabi. It was this that led to his resignation rather than the earlier affair. Eventually Mellor was reportedly told after three weeks of revelations that he was becoming an embarrassment to John Major in a phone call from Sir Marcus Fox - chairman of the backbench 1922 Committee. Mellor resigned on 24 September 1992.
Mellor later suggested that he was hounded out of office, but tabloid editors quickly rejected this. Bill Hagerty, editor of The People said: "This is the first time in ages that David Mellor has done the decent thing".[2]
He contested the 1997 general election, but was defeated by Labour's Tony Colman. However, the election night was more memorable for Mellor's showdown with Referendum Party founder Sir James Goldsmith — Mellor was taunted by Goldsmith and a crowd of other candidates (who gave him a slow hand clap and shouted "Out! Out! Out!") during his speech. Mellor retorted:



“
... and Sir James ... you have nothing to be smug about ... I think we have shown tonight that the Referendum Party is dead in the water, and you can get back off to Mexico in the knowledge that your attempt to buy the British political system has failed.
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Private life
Mellor married Judith on 20 July 1974. He and his wife divorced in 1995.
Mellor currently lives with his partner, Penelope, Viscountess Cobham, in the Dockmaster's House, a 19th-century listed building at the gateway to the St Katharine Docks, east London. On 30 May 2006 it was reported that Mellor has spoken out against the proposed construction of a 17-storey block of flats in the St Katharine Docks. Mellor said: {{cquote|There is no design involved. It would look tawdry down the wrong end of a beach in Torremolinos. This isn't a case of just not wanting it in my backyard. This area is historically significant with listed buildings and it's next to the Tower of London, which is a world heritage site".[3]

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