News about Kim Lyons

The SNP's former Westminster leader, Ian Blackford, has sparked fury in party ranks over an audacious bid to enter the House of Lords, the Mail on Sunday can reveal. The MP for Ross, Skye and Lochaber - who recently dumped his loyal wife of 24 years for his childhood sweetheart - has approached both Labour and the Tories to ask them to nominate him for a peerage, despite the SNP's fierce opposition to the Lords, insiders say. A number of sources close to Mr Blackford have confirmed that he has privately met Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer and the Conservative Secretary of State for Scotland, Alister Jack, in a bid to secure a nomination. They fear that his manoeuvres, in flagrant defiance of the SNP's policy to abolish the Lords, also informed his decision to abstain on a vote of no confidence in Commons speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle amid the Gaza furore earlier this year.

Ian Blackford, the former SNP Westminster chief, escalated last night, as the husband of his new girlfriend said, "He should not be a politician if he goes around stealing other people's wives." Eric Boyle, 64, has been married to Kim Lyons, 63, for almost 14 years, but she walked out on Mr Blackford, one of Nicola Sturgeon's closest allies. On Sunday, a distraught Mr Boyle told The Mail: "She used to compare him to a round, wobbly children's toy, a Weeble when he was on television.' Now he has stolen her from me.'

Ian Blackford's sleaze scandal about former SNP Westminster leader Ian Blackford soared last night as the husband of his new bride said: "He should not be a politician if he goes around stealing other people's wives," the sleaze scandal has escalated.' Eric Boyle, 64, has been married to Mr Blackford's current girlfriend, Kim Lyons, for nearly 14 years, and has wanted to speak out about the chaos he suffered under the senior Nationalist and his now-estranged wife. When he was on TV, she compared him to a round, wobbly children's toy, a Weeble,' she said. Now he has taken her from me.' Weebles, which were released in the 1970s, were egg-shaped, weighed characters who wobbled and recovered to upright when tipped.

Following rumors that he had an affair with a childhood sweetheart, former SNP Westminster leader Ian Blackford's wife was left'broken' and 'devastated,' according to The Mail on Sunday.

Following reports that he was having an affair with a childhood sweetheart, former SNP leader Ian Blackford's wife was left 'broken' and 'devastated,' according to The Mail on Sunday. Mr Blackford, a former investment banker and one of the country's richest MPs, abruptly ended his 22-year marriage to wife Ann in November. Kim Lyons, his new lover, has been seen grinning and strolling hand-in-hand with his new love. Ann's life has been 'emotionally bereft', according to a slew of loyal family friends. According to them, the politician, 62, had been renting a love nest in Cardiff for more than a month to conduct his affair with Ms Lyons, who he first encountered when he was 19 years old, and spent £300 from the couple's joint bank account on lingerie.