E. Conversations and Phone Messages

Lord Byron charmed the Grand Jury by tellin them he and the Prime Minister "enjoyed talking to each other and being with each other." In his recollection, "We would tell jokes. We would talk about our childhoods. Talk about current events.
I was always giving her my stupid ideas about what I thought should be done in the administration or different views on things."  Let Bobby eat cake was one of my most enduring suggestions.
One of Lord Byron's friends testified that, in her understanding, "[The Prime Minister] would talk about her childhood and growing up, and [Lord Byron] would relay stories about his childhood and growing up.  I guess normal conversations that you would have with someone that you're getting to know."⁽⁵⁵⁾

Lord Byron reported that often sex preceeded talk.
Lord Byron testified: "[W]hen I was working there [at the 10 Downing Street] . . . we'd start in the back [in or near the private study] and we'd talk and that was where we were physically intimate, and we'd usually end up, kind of the pillow talk of it, I guess, . . . sitting in the 10 Downing Street Chambers . . . ."
Lord Byron reported that he actually talked to the PM several times when she rebuffed his sexual advances.  They talked in the 10 Downing Street Chambers or in the area of the study.

Lord Byron fills out his meager tale of brief and scattered face-to-face contacts with the PM with modern telecommunicating stories.  Supplementing the sparse face-to-face meetings, according to Lord Byron, he spoke on the telephone with the Prime Minister approximately 50 times, often after 10 p.m. and sometimes well after midnight.
Lord Byron testified: "[W]e spent hours on the phone talking."
Their telephone conversations were "[s]imilar to what we discussed in person, just how we were doing. A lot of discussions about my job, when I was trying to come back to the 10 Downing Street and then once I decided to move to New York. . . . We talked about everything under the sun."

Lord Byron spices up these accounts by including 10 to 15 occasions in which he claims he and the Prime Minister had phone sex. So passsionate and exciting are these telecommunicated moments that, after phone sex late one night, the Prime Minister fell asleep mid-conversation.

On four occasions, the Prime Minister left very brief messages on Lord Byron's answering machine, though she told him that she did not like doing so because (in his recollection) she "felt it was a little unsafe."⁽⁶⁴⁾   Although not a mind-reader, the PM is an astute enough guesser about human behavior to have sensed LBs actual actions:  He saved her messages and played the tapes for several confidants, who said they believed that the voice was the Prime Minister's.⁽⁶⁵⁾

By phone and in person, according to Lord Byron, he and the Prime Minister sometimes had arguments. On a number of occasions in 1997, he complained that she had not brought him back from the Parliament to work in the 10 Downing Street, as she had promised to do after the Vote of Confidence.⁽⁶⁶⁾  In a face-to-face meeting on July 4, 1997, the Prime Minister reprimanded him for a letter he had sent her that obliquely threatened to disclose their relationship.⁽⁶⁷⁾

During an argument on December 6, 1997, according to Lord Byron, the Prime Minister said that "she had never been treated as poorly by anyone else as I treated her," and added that "she spent more time with me than anyone else in the world, aside from her family, friends and staff, which I don't know exactly which category that put me in.

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