ROMSEY’S MP is remaining tight-lipped over national newspaper allegations that she has had a four-year affair with a Tory councillor from Suffolk.

Mrs Nokes refused to confirm or deny allegations which first appeared in the Sunday Mirror and then in a number of national dailies on Monday.

But exclusively told Andy Simmonds, reporter on our sister paper the Romsey Advertiser, that she had been betrayed by a friend.

“Someone I considered to be a friend chose to make a statement to the media. I’d now simply like to be left in peace with my husband Marc and our daughter to sort things out," said 37-year-old Mrs Nokes, who lives at West Wellow.

The shock revelations came just five weeks after Mrs Nokes regained the Romsey seat from the Lib Dems after 10 years.

Mrs Nokes parents Roy and Veronica Perry said they have been stunned by stories in the press accusing their daughter of cheating on her husband with 27-year-old James Dinsdale whom she is said to have first met at a Tory party conference in Bournemouth in 2006.

It is claimed Mrs Nokes, labelled by the national press as a ‘Cameron Cutie’ met up with Mr James Dinsdale in the Kensington Close Hotel in London last Monday where she is alleged to have spent about two hours in a room with the former executive of Conservative Future – the party’s youth wing.

Mr Dinsdale who is Conservative councillor for Westgate in Suffolk, told the Sunday Mirror: “I can confirm Caroline Nokes and I have had a sexual relationship. I have no further comment.”