A new Tory MP who boasted she was too attractive to be a politician has been caught cheating on her husband with a toyboy lover.

Caroline Nokes, 37, a so-called 'Cameron Cutie', had the personal support of her leader David Cameron during her election campaign, and had endorsed a Christian group's declaration that extra-marital sex is wrong.

Yet she has now heaped embarrassment on the Prime Minister by being caught enjoying a tryst in a hotel room with a Conservative activist ten years her junior, James Dinsdale.

Today, Mrs Nokes and her husband Marc, 42, who have an eleven-year-old daughter - and celebrated their 15th wedding anniversary last week - were refusing to comment on the affair.

But the MP's young lover Mr Dinsdale, a Conservative councillor and former leading light in the party's youth wing, Conservative Future, told journalists: 'I can confirm Caroline Nokes and I have had a sexual relationship.

'I have no further comment to make.'

Mr Nokes' mother Patricia Nokes said her son was coping well and insisted his marriage to the MP would last.

Last week's tryst, said to be simply the latest secret meeting in a four year affair, was revealed in a Sunday newspaper.

It was claimed that Mrs Nokes, who won Romsey and Southampton North from the Lib-Dems in a close fight, had on Monday stayed late at the Commons for a debate on political reform.

She reportedly sent Mr Dinsdale a text from inside the chamber saying she was 'bored to death' before rushing by taxi to the four star Kensington Close hotel a couple of miles away.

Moments after she had gone into her £130-a-night room, Mr Dinsdale arrived dressed in a hoodie.

He was caught on a hidden camera knocking on the door and being admitted by smiling Mrs Nokes.

Personal support: David Cameron and Mrse Nokes, one of 'Cameron's Cuties'. on the campaign trail last month

Two hours later, their late-night assignation complete, Mr Dinsdale left the hotel and drove off.

Mrs Nokes stayed the night before leaving in a black taxi the next morning.

A friend told the Sunday Mirror that the pair had met at the Conservative conference in Bournemouth in October 2006 - and had disappeared to the young man's bedroom together for two hours on the first night.

They are since said to have met for sex on an irregular basis, with occasions arising often when Mr Dinsdale worked for billionaire Tory donor Lord Ashcroft, who funded a campaign for the party to win key seats.

The friend said of the relationship between Mrs Nokes and Mr Dinsdale: 'It's a very loose arrangement - sometimes they would spend the whole day together, sometimes just a few hours.

'Months would pass between meetings, but they never completely broke it off.

'They would get a buzz from sending each other quick text messages with when and where they would meet.'

Horsey Mrs Nokes, who lives with her husband and daughter in a £900,000 house on the edge of the New Forest in rural Romsey, near Southampton, had long been destined for a career in politics.

Straight after leaving university in 1994, her Tory MEP father Roy Perry gave her a job in his office, and she soon began fighting seats for the party.

In 2005 she took part in a photoshoot for Glamour magazine - and boasted: 'I've been told I'm too pretty to be in politics.'

Until last year she was chief executive of the National Pony Society, and she remains a Tory member of Test Valley Borough Council.

She married her businessman husband Marc in 1995, and boasts about her idyllic country life on her official website.

Midnight rendezvous: The Kensington Close Hotel, where James Dinsdale reportedly met Mrs Nokes in her room late on Monday night

Writing on the website, she gives thanks for 'the unstinting support of my husband and daughter who through no fault of their own have to suffer from having a political wife and mother'.

She also says: 'I promise to be transparent in all my dealings.'

Today that transparency did not extend to answering questions about her relationship with Mr Dinsdale.

A spokesman for the Conservative Party refused to comment on the scandal - but said he doubted Mrs Nokes would have had time to claim on Parliamentary expenses for the £130-a-night room used for the tryst.

During the election Tory leader Mr Cameron described Mrs Nokes as a 'good hardworking local young woman'.

Mr Dinsdale refused to comment beyond confirming he had had a sexual relationship with the married MP.

He currently lives with his parents in a £450,000 house in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, is a Conservative councillor in Westgate, and works in publishing in Cambridge.

Today, his mother Beverley, apparently unaware her son had admitted to sex with the MP, said: 'My son was Caroline’s agent at the General Election for goodness sake – he helped her win – so it is natural that they should still meet up from time to time.

'They are both grown-ups but James has a girlfriend here in Bury St Edmunds – he is spending the day with her today.'

Mr Nokes' mother Patricia Nokes, speaking at her home in Salisbury, Wilts, said of her son: 'He is coping very well and they are very much together.

'They have a very solid relationship and have just celebrated their 15th wedding anniversary last week.

'This will not finish their relationship.'

By Daily Mail