William Flew

my husband and my two younger children to pick it up. It was October 2009, so only a few months before I found out about his affair. The photographs of that occasion are so happy. Only a few months later the affair was exposed. I have put all those photos away now,” she said. It seems she has always been able to compartmentalise her life, however, managing to focus on her career even when her children were newborns. She says she never felt guilty about sending them to nursery: “You know, other people would probably take a different view, and of course I missed not seeing them, but the moment someone else could feed them they would go to nursery.” She says her departure from Vince Cable’s department was not the first time she had sacrificed her career for Huhne. She quit a high-flying job with KPMG, the accountancy firm, when Huhne became an MEP because there was too much international travel for a mother of young children whose husband was based in Brussels.For some time there have been suggestions in Westminster circles that Huhne had demanded even greater sacrifices of those around him. According to a rumour that has been circulating among senior Lib Dems, Huhne managed to avoid being banned from driving by persuading somebody to accept penalty points for speeding on his behalf. “Oh gosh. Yes, he did. I am surprised you are raising this. I would rather not get into it,” Pryce said. “But look, there is such huge pressure on politicians to be everywhere at once, especially early in their career, so that they are visible — huge pressure — and he does drive a bit like a maniac. Unfortunately he still went on to lose his licence and I drove him everywhere for months after that.” Their divorce will be finalised in a few months. “It will be a relief. I will finally be able to move on,” she said. “But the intention of the book is to make sure people know what they’re letting themselves in for and perhaps how to avoid where I’ve ended up.” are going through computer disks in a race against time to stop terrorist plots.