Damian Green agrees to reveal his texts to younger woman in bid to prove he didn’t sexually harass her

DAMIAN Green has tried to clear his name by turning over a string of text messages to a Whitehall probe into whether he harassed a younger woman.

With Theresa May’s deputy fighting for his political life, Labour slammed the “flawed” Cabinet Office investigation and a Tory MP demanded the powerful First Secretary of State step aside.

The row came on another day of high drama in Westminster, that saw:

• Furious Tory chiefs identify a former ministerial aide as their chief suspect behind the sex dossier that has rocked the Government.
• Mrs May’s former spinner said MPs could yet face jail over the claims
• Two Ministers tipped to be the next PM - Rory Stewart and Dominic Raab - revealed themselves to be on the “deeply hurtful” list.
• The PM announced a cross party truce on the crisis with talks next week after a Commons grilling.
• Two further political interns and activists came forward with tales of abuse.

Yesterday PM ordered Cabinet Secretary Sir Jeremy Heywood look into her close ally after a female Tory activist thirty years his junior claimed he had touched her leg and sent her a sleazy text.

Writer and Tory member Kate Maltby, 31, said Damian Green “fleetingly” touched her knee during a meeting in a London bar 2015 and then send a “suggestive” message to her about her wearing a corset.

She said the MP was an old friend of her family who she had approached for advice after becoming involved in the Conservative Party.

When they met in a pub, she said he suggested could help her start a political career, before turning the conversation to affairs in Westminster.

Ms Maltby said that he mentioned that his own wife was “very understanding”.

The 61-year-old, a university friend Mrs May’s, told waiting cameras outside his West London home yesterday morning “all these allegations are completely false”.

And pals said the Cabinet heavyweight felt he had been stitched up and the full list of texts could clear his name.

They have been passed to the Cabinet Office and Mr Green was last night said to be prepared to make them public after the investigation.

But Labour said the probe was not good enough as there were “clear questions” over the Cabinet Office investigating one of their own ministers.

They said it must be an “effective, robust, process.”

Sir Jeremy Heywood was once branded “Sir Cover Up”, sparking opposition fears that the probe into Mr Green would be a whitewash.

Yesterday Tory MP Anna Soubry said Mrs May’s No 2 should “remove himself” until the conclusion of that investigation”.

She told Sky News: “Yes, the allegation against Damian Green has been reported to the Cabinet Office and he is under investigation... in normal circumstances that person would be suspended.”

Yesterday Damian Green’s wife lawyer Alicia was spotted leaving the family home carrying a suitcase.

However sources insisted the barrister was carrying legal papers relating to her work.

Mrs Green was once quoted as saying her husband had “a very strong sex drive,” adding: “He’s just not all that discriminating.”

As the sleaze row continued to rock Westminster two top Tory Ministers came forward to claim that they had been unfairly included on the dossier that named Westminster sex pests.

No10 insiders and party chiefs had yesterday identified a suspect for the lurid dossier of allegations against dozens of Tory MPs and Ministers.

The former aide to a Tory minister denied any involvement to The Sun last night.

Justice Minister Dominic Raab said said he has taken legal advice over the “false and malicious” claims made against him.

And he branded the list a “form of harassment and intimidation, although of course I am not suggesting it is the same or equivalent.

He added: “Under my own name, the entry reads: “Injunction for inappropriate behaviour with a woman”. And yet, I have never been served with any injunction for anything. Nor have I ever sought one.”

Meanwhile Foreign Office Minister Rory Stewart said a reference to him on the list was “completely untrue and deeply hurtful” and an ex staff member came forward to also claim allegations made against him were nonsense.

But dodgy Tory politicians named in the Westminster sex dossier “could yet get a knock at the door from the police” according to a former No10 comms chief.

Katie Perrior said some of the claims made on the controversial list of sleaze were serious enough to warrant investigation by the cops.

But Mrs May’s former spin doctor - who left government in June - insisted the PM was not told about allegations of sexual harassment or assault involving MPs when taking over Downing Street last year.

Yesterday Mrs May announced that cross party talks will take place next Monday - more than ten days after the sleaze scandal was triggered by the first revelations in The Sun.

Mrs May told a sombre Commons: “I’ve written to all party leaders inviting them to a meeting early next week so we can discuss a common, transparent, independent grievance procedure for all those working in Parliament.

Last night a former parliamentary intern claimed to have been groped by a former MP while looking at a painting in Westminster in 2012.

James Greenhalgh told the BBC the MP put his arm around him while he looked at a painting outside a House of Commons bar.

The MP was “stinking of alcohol” and then “suddenly his arm slipped down towards my buttocks and he had a good feel round there, and went a bit further in between my legs”.

Mr Greenhalgh said he did not know the MP and felt “violated” by the “awful” incident.

The BBC did not identify which party the now former MP belonged to.

And a former Lib Dem youth leader Kavya Kaushik claims she was “touched up” by senior party member but told to continue canvassing with him because it would “further her career”.