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'We made love in John's office'(The Mail on Sunday)
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=384690&in_page_id=1770
MAIL ON SUNDAY EXCLUSIVE: The blonde secretary who became John Prescott's lover has spoken for the first time about their illicit relationship - and how shamelessly he exploited the trappings of power to seduce her and use her for sex.
Tracey Temple, 43, revealed how, with astonishing recklessness, Mr Prescott demanded sex from her in his grand Office of the Deputy Prime Minister while civil servants worked outside.
The couple would regularly grope and grapple during the working day and she had repeated assignations with him at his plush Admiralty House apartment funded by the taxpayer - once, shockingly, after a solemn memorial service.
Mr Prescott would frequently interrupt his ministerial business to caress his mistress or to engage in sexual banter. When unable to be together physically, they had coldly sordid phone sex.
'Regularly grope during working day'
But it is the disclosure of their encounters within the hushed nerve centre of government that will shock MPs. Speaking exclusively to The Mail on Sunday, she said: "We were very lucky we were never caught - as we never shut the door. I knew what we were doing was risky but we both got carried away. Seven civil servants worked right outside his office.
"Of course there were moments when I thought, 'I shouldn't be doing this.î I also thought how surprised and shocked people would be if this ever got out."
Tracey believes that the disclosure of the affair was orchestrated by a political enemy of the Deputy Prime Minister in an attempt to bring him down.
'A sexually charged atmosphere'
But, while he has been protected by the full might of the Whitehall machine, she feels that she has been abandoned. She revealed that as news of the affair broke, she received a single, brief telephone call from Mr Prescott.
The moment he established that she was "on-side", however, he disappeared.
She has since been portrayed as a faithless party girl.
Tracey said: "I feel I have been used and am being used as a scapegoat. I have had no Press spokesman, or representative to help me, even though I have sent the Government several desperate messages. Basically I've said, 'Help. I'm falling to pieces here.'
"But they have abandoned me and hung me out to dry. I have been left completely alone. I am not the siren I have been painted - I have only had eight lovers in my life. And this was a private affair."
Tracey is fond of Prescott. She continues to insist that "he is really a lovely, caring man". But the way he callously betrayed Pauline, his wife of 44 years, with a woman 23 years his junior tells a very different story.
Tracey was a highly regarded civil servant of 20 years when she started to work for John Prescott in May 2001 after Mo Mowlam, her previous boss, stepped down.
The following year, when the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister was created, she became his assistant private secretary and diary manager.
She was delighted with the appointment and said: "I liked working for him. I felt privileged.
"We got on very well. I am quite a flirty, touchy sort of person. We had adjoining offices and I was in and out of his office countless times a day; I would rub his arm when he went past me and he would do the same to me.
"But it was all open, in front of people, and I think they just accepted we got on really well. He was tactile with everyone.
"John knew he could trust me and he knew I was good at my job. I wouldn't say there was a sexually charged atmosphere, but we got on very well."
The first time she had to take ministerial boxes to his flat at Admiralty House, however, in May 2002, things were to change dramatically.
Tracey said: "Security is tight. You knock at the outer door, a guard opens it, looks at your pass and lets you in. Inside, there is a big hallway and I had to go to the lift and catch it to the second floor.
"Inside there is another hallway and a big living room with a walnut desk with family pictures on it - John is a great family man.
"It was the first time I had been there, and he leaned forward and cupped my face in his hands. I froze. He said, 'I probably shouldn't have done that.' And I said, 'No you shouldn't.' Then I left.
"I don't really know how I felt. Surprised I suppose. Certainly if anyone had said to me five years ago that I would end up having an affair with John Prescott, I would have laughed and said, 'You're joking.î He is so much older and not really my type.
"But I have always liked men who made me laugh and he used to make me laugh at work all the time. He's witty and warm and very popular with the staff. Over the weeks we just got closer and closer."
It was some time in the next few months that the pair's flirtatious office friendship became a fullblown affair. Tracey, an obsessive diary-keeper, chronicled their developing relationship in unflinching detail.
An entry of December 19 that year describes a typical evening with her boss. "I went back to his flat... As I walked in, he started kissing and...
"Afterwards, I said to him, 'No regrets?' He said no and asked me the same thing. I said no, too."
Tracey's office had a connecting door to the Deputy Prime Minister's and she would be in and out of his office countless times a day.
"It was a fun place to work," she said. "There was lots of socialising among the staff after work - though not with the DPM. I would walk through his door into his office dozens of times a day."
Ahead of her, she would see his meeting table with chairs, alongside which were two sofas in an L-shape.
On the left-hand wall was his desk; the scene was surveyed by a portrait of Cromwell.
Tracey said: "When I went into his office for diary meetings, if I was wearing a skirt he would slide his hand up my leg, under it. He used to stroke my back. And, yes, I did give him sex in the office a couple of times.
"He would usually be going through his ministerial box - maybe things to do with regeneration, or the environment.
"Things always started with us touching. It might have been me touching his arm, or him patting me on the back. I would go in for some task with the diary. Sometimes the touch would start something, we would kiss and things would go on from there.
"We were very lucky we were never caught - as we never shut the door. Sometimes it was behind the desk - but mainly we stood behind the open door." She admits that there were colleagues working right outside.
"Anyone could have walked in," she said. "There were people working outside. It was quite risky."
Afterwards, the couple would cuddle or kiss, before returning to their work.
On another occasion, she recorded in her diary that Prescott "got frisky" in the Admiralty Boardroom, a Government conference room.
"I went in to take some notes, and he touched my breasts and started kissing me," she said.
But didn't their activities get in the way of Government business? "We were both busy with our jobs, but we sometimes managed to squeeze in sex," says Tracey. She considers. "I don't think it interfered with our work," she adds.
Tracey insists the relationship was not one-sided, but in her diaries there is almost palpable disappointment on more than one occasion when she records Prescott was struggling to perform.
She said she used to worry about Prescott's health. "He was a lot older than me and I used to worry about his health . . . that something would happen to him."
Tracey would go to his flat sometimes twice a week. But other times the couple would not meet for weeks. "There was no pattern," she said. "It was usually spontaneous. I would stay no more than an hour. We would have sex. We never talked about politics, or his wife or family. It was just general chit-chat."
Tracey insists that Prescott - whom she affectionately referred to as DPM - was always "very tender and caring".
Yet it is clear that after sex, he had little further use for her. No conversation with him sticks in her mind.
And she was never invited to hang around for long. She did not stay a single night with him. "I always went home," she said. "There seemed no point in staying, though this was never discussed. It was just the way we did things. There wasn't a need to stay."
What she fails to accept is that sleeping with the Deputy Prime Minister, an apparently happily married man who cracked down hard on Tory Ministers over sleaze, could never be a private or innocent matter.
She believes that nobody in the ODPM knew of their affair - despite the now-notorious pictures of her flirting and falling over with him at a Christmas party in 2002.
These emerged this week when a tabloid newspaper revealed their affair.
Ironically those pictures were taken on her own camera - and, she believes, removed from her flat by her now ex-partner, Barrie Williams.
That night, she says, she and the DPM did not have sex after she and about nine other people went up to his Admiralty House flat for his home-made bacon butties.
But on the dance floor, during the night, he had been whispering outrageous things in her ear.
The next day, as he lay on a sofa, his astonished staff began talking of what they believed was going on between them.
"I did hear a whisper that I had snogged John Prescott in the lift the night of the Christmas party, and that I had nuzzled his neck," Tracey said.
"This is strictly untrue. I was furious about it and concluded that people were just jealous of the fact we got on so well. And I told John and he was furious too."
Tracey said: "I was very upset, because it wasn't true. Even if we were having sex, we wouldn't have been stupid enough to do something like that. We're not stupid people. When I told John Prescott he screamed, 'What!' I could tell by his face he was livid and I just backed off.
"I would have thought he would have spoken to people about this - to correct it as it was so wrong. It's the kind of thing I'd expect him to do but I don't know if he did."
Tracey still believes that John Prescott cared for her - though he never gave her any gifts. And she considers he is genuinely contrite about hurting his wife and family.
"I do think he is sincere in his apology," she said. "He is a family man And I think he genuinely cared for me, otherwise he would never have done the things we did.
"I couldn't have done them without caring for him and I like to think he is the same."
The affair lasted over two years - fading away", as Tracey put it. "It just got to the point where I didn't really want to have sex any more," she said. "But we were still very close. Still great friends."
Tracey met Tony and Cherie Blair and all the leading Cabinet Ministers during her time at the ODPM but says this had nothing to do with her relationship with Prescott. "I met them anyway, through work," she adds.
And she believes none of them suspected that anything was going on between her and Prescott.
"Nobody in my department knew," she said. "So certainly none of the Ministers did."
But Tracey also had a close relationship with Pauline Prescott. How could she betray her?
"I don't know," she says. "I never wanted to hurt her and I never wanted to break up the marriage.
"Pauline is a fantastic person. I loved her too. We had a great relationship and I know she will be devastated. I do feel bad about that. I couldn't look at her now."
'Pauline was friendly and unsuspecting'
She says Pauline was always friendly - and, she believes, completely unsuspecting.
So why did she continue the affair for almost two years? Tracey is at a loss to explain it, even, it seems, to herself.
"He was just a great boss and I enjoyed the attention he gave me. But I wasn't into the whole power thing.
"It wasn't like I went home thinking, 'Oh my God, I'm sleeping with the Deputy Prime Minister. I don't think I was looking for a father figure either.'
"I truthfully don't know why I did it. I think I liked the attention and feeling cared for."
Tracey thought the affair was well behind her when she learned it was about to be exposed in a tabloid newspaper, last Monday night.
"My boyfriend Barrie had been behaving suspiciously when I was over at his house. He had already left me a note the day before saying: "You slept with the DPM."
"He claimed I had talked about it in my sleep on the Saturday night," she said. "I do talk in my sleep. But on the Monday night I had this suspicion he was taping me.
"Then he told me he'd read my diaries. Then I saw a letter from a newspaper on the table. Then the DPM's Press officer began calling me telling me the Press was going to run this story.
"It was terrifying. I was asking the ODPM for support. Their Press officer kept calling me. He said, 'Trace, I'm trying to help you. You must be completely honest with me and tell me everything.' But I realised later that he just wanted all the information I had - he didn't want to help me at all.
"After he got what he wanted, he didn't respond to my text messages for help, at all."
John Prescott also called her that Monday night. Tracey felt touched that he cared, but the call was curt and to the point.
"You all right, love?" he asked her. Tracey replied: "Yes I am but I'm not." He said: "It'll be all right."
Tracey shrugs sadly, confronted by the fact that perhaps all Mr Prescott cared about was himself.
Tracey fled the country, with the help of the boyfriend who had sold her story to the Press.
Extraordinarily, he still thinks she will go back to him "once all this has quietened down".
But Tracey now faces a highly uncertain future.
Only last Friday, she received a letter from the Cabinet Office saying that while her return to work would be handled "as sensitively as possible", the Government would fully understand if she wanted to take further time off work.
In the interim she has been offered special leave with full pay.
But the secretary is feeling far from reassured. "I have had no support. They have to find me a new position - I haven't done anything criminal.
"But how am I going to face colleagues back in the service after all this? It could have been so different."
Tracey never even asked Prescott whether he had had other affairs. "I didn't want to know," she said. "And he didn't talk about it. But I find it unlikely that I am the first or that I will be the last.
"But that didn't bother me."
So, what, precisely had she got out of the affair? "I don't know really," she said. "It just sort of happened. It wasn't like I was thinking of his power, or that I could make money out of it. I am a very loyal person."
Tracey had an on-again off-again relationship with her boyfriend Barrie, a lorry driver, for over six years. But the commuting from her home in Hampshire for an 8am start, when her working day would not end until 8pm, had been wearing her down.
So she rented a room in South London where she began spending most of the week. She shared this house with Prescott's leading Press secretary Alan Schofield - the man who she feels has let her down so badly this week.
"I never brought anybody home, except a close girlfriend, the only person I confided in about the affair," she said.
"When I told her she was like - 'Bloody hell, Trace, what have you done?' But I kept it a big secret. I never even told my mother."
She does not believe that Barry learned about the affair through her talking in her sleep. "The things he said I said I simply would never say," she said.
Instead, she suspects a more sinister political agenda. "I think someone suggested it to him - maybe someone from within the Department," she said, "someone who wanted to make a victim of John Prescott."
She has, however, no idea who that person could be. Or, naively, what they might have hoped to achieve from it.
But she began to realise the Government was panicking when the Press officer called her repeatedly last Monday night.
"Say nothing," he told her. "Just keep shtoom. Don't worry, we'll look after you."
She said: "He wanted all the details that were in the diaries and I told him everything he wanted to know. He said he needed the information to protect me - but now I realise they were just trying to protect themselves.
"When I was texting, desperate for help, I was getting no response. Then I was just told, 'We'll see you back in work next week.'"
Her mother Valerie, who lives in the South of France with Tracey's stepfather John, has also been very wounded by the way Tracey has been portrayed. She encouraged her daughter to speak out, to set the record straight.
And she straightforwardly blames one person - John Prescott.
"I think she has been used," she said. "And no one from the Government has supported her. She has been left on her own to cope with all of this."
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