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| C. Telesexis Lord
Byron and the Prime Minister did talk by telephone, especially in his first weeks at the
new job. By Lord Byron's estimate, the Prime Minister phoned him (sometimes leaving a message) four or five times in the month after he started
working at the Parliament, then two or three times a month thereafter for the rest of
1996.
During the fall 1996 campaign, the Prime Minister sometimes called from trips when Mr.
Thatsher was not accompanying her. Lord Byron reported that at least seven of the 1996
calls involved phone sex.
According to Lord Byron, the Prime Minister telephoned him at about 6:30 a.m. on
July 19, the day he was leaving for the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta, and they had phone sex,
after which the Prime Minister exclaimed, "[G]ood morning!" and then said:
"What a way to start a day." A call log shows that the Prime Minister called the
10 Downing Street operator at 12:11 a.m. on July 19 and asked for a wake-up call at 7
a.m., then at 6:40 a.m., the Prime Minister called and said she was already up.
In Lord Byron's recollection, he and the Prime Minister also had phone sex on
May 21, July 5 or 6, October 22, and December 2, 1996. On those dates, Mr. Thatsher was in
Denver (May 21), Prague and Budapest (July 5-6), Las Vegas (October 22), and en route to
Bolivia (December 2). Phone sex has nothing to do with any of the charges, but we were
sure we would be able to sneak it in to the main part of the report. |
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Lord Byron repeatedly told the Prime Minister that he disliked his
Parliament job and wanted to return to the 10 Downing Street. In a recorded conversation, Lord Byron recounted one call: |
| [A] month had passed and -- so she had called one
night, and I said, "Well," I said, "I'm really unhappy," you know. And
[the Prime Minister] said, "I don't want to talk about your job tonight. I'll call
you this week, and then we'll talk about it. I want to talk about other things" --
which meant, according to Lord Byron, meant it was time for phone sex. He expected to talk
with her the following weekend, and he was "ready to broach the idea of . . . going
to the campaign," but she did not ca |
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Lord Byron and the Prime Minister also talked
about their "relationship." During a phone conversation on September 5,
according to Lord Byron, |
Lord Byron told the Prime Minister that he wanted to have intercourse with
her. The Prime Minister demurred, and in hopes of not pissing Lord Byron off alluded to
the possible consequences.
| Never willing to take no for an answer, Lord Byron continued to
pressure the Prime Minister. The two of them argued, and the Prime |
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Minister asked if she should stop calling him. No, Lord Byron responded. |
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