The two became lovers, and Keays' public revelation of her pregnancy and of their twelve-year-long affair led to his resignation as Secretary of State for Trade and Industry in the government of Margaret Thatcher.
[1] Subsequently, as a result of a dispute over child maintenance payments, Parkinson (with Keays' initial consent) was able to gain an injunction in 1993, forbidding the British media from making any reference to their daughter.
Flora Keays (born 31 December 1983,[3] in Merton, Greater London) has learning disabilities and Asperger syndrome, and had an operation to remove a brain tumour when she was four.
Sara Keays, who was forced to educate her daughter at home, and encouraged her in ballet, gymnastics, horseriding and trampolining, said Parkinson's reappointment by William Hague as Chairman of the Conservative Party caused the youngster problems when she finally secured a place at a secondary school: "It was torture for her.
[6] Speaking ahead of the film, Sara Keays angrily denied that she fell pregnant to trap her lover and attacked Downing Street and Conservative Central Office for conducting a "very powerful and all pervasive disinformation campaign" to discredit her at the time.