Personal Life
He married Victoria Jenkins in September 1990 in Kensington and they have a daughter (born March 1992) and son (born August 1994). His niece is Golden Globe-award winning actress Emily Blunt. In August 2010, he announced that he was leaving his wife, in order "to come to terms with his homosexuality". Blunt's voting record in Parliament had previously been broadly unsympathetic towards gay rights, though slightly more favourable when compared to the majority of his Conservative colleagues.
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