FOREIGN Secretary William Hague, pictured below, has refused toexplain why he had shared a hotel room with a 25-year-old male aide,which led to claims they had a relationship, as a senior Torycriticised the cabinet minister's "poor judgment".
Mr Hague admitted he had occasionally shared a twin room withformer Foreign Office special adviser Christopher Myers in anextraordinary statement on Wednesday that also revealed his wifeFfion had suffered multiple miscarriages.
But the former Tory leader has insisted that neither man wouldhave chosen a shared room "if we had thought that it in any waymeant or implied something".
Downing Street said yesterday that Mr Hague still had the fullsupport of the Prime Minister.
But John Redwood, the senior Conservative MP, said that Mr Haguehad shown "poor judgment to share a room with an assistant".
Tory peer Lord Tebbit also weighed into the contro-versy, sayingthat Mr Hague had been "naive at best, foolish at worst".
Asked yesterday why the two men had shared a room, the ForeignSecretary refused to say, adding that he had given his statement andwas "not going to expand on that".
But he did go on to attack the internet rumours which he said hadled him and Ffion to reveal details of their struggle to havechildren.
And he disclosed that Mr Myers, who has since resigned, was"rather fed up of the political world", adding: "And who can blamehim?".
Mr Hague also insisted that his work in the Foreign Office "hadnot missed a beat" since the controversy began.
Rumours of an affair had been circulating on the internet fordays after pictures emerged of the men walking in London, with MrHague wearing a baseball cap and sunglasses.
Questions were raised about why Mr Hague had recently appointed athird special adviser, at a time when most ministers are limited tojust two as part of the Government's austerity drive.
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