Second Law Chief Confesses to Affair ; Blair's Senior Legal Adviser Owns Up to Liaison with a Highflying Barrister . . . Just a Week After the Dpp's Fling Was Exposed

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THE Government was hit by a second legal marital scandal last night after it was revealed that Attorney General Lord Goldsmith had an affair with Britain's leading Asian woman barrister.

Cabinet Minister Lord Goldsmith, who is in charge of prosecutions and is Tony Blair's senior legal adviser, confirmed that he had an extramarital affair with attractive Anglo-Indian lawyer Kim Hollis.

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Second Law Chief Confesses to Affair ; Blair's Senior Legal Adviser Owns Up to Liaison with a Highflying Barrister . . . Just a Week After the Dpp's Fling Was Exposed

'My wife knows all about this and has done for a long time,' the Labour peer said in a statement to The Mail on Sunday. 'This is a private matter and my wife and I have no further comment.' Divorced mother of two Mrs Hollis, who is nearly ten years younger than 57- year-old Lord Goldsmith, was educated at Cheltenham Ladies...

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