Former Labour MP Stephen Pound has spoken movingly about a daughter he discovered he had from a relationship when he was a teenager - and revealed that he would love to meet his granddaughters for the first time.
Speaking on GB News Stephen Pound said: “I got a letter when I was in Parliament, from a young woman who said, ‘I don’t want anything from you but I think you’re my dad.’
“And we met and it was extraordinary, because we started finishing each other’s sentences and we both wanted to eat the same food.
“It turned out when I was 17 and her mother was 17, we’d had a relationship and I was at sea immediately afterwards. I didn’t know that her mother was pregnant, I didn’t know that she’d had a baby and I didn’t know that the girl was put up for adoption the day after she was born.
“And what was delicate about it was that she didn't want her adoptive father to know about me because she would have felt that in some way denigrating that relationship.
“There is no template for that sort of relationship. We’ve had no contact since then because she’s got three young daughters, although they’re a bit older now, and it was just too painful.
“My daughter was absolutely delighted - she suddenly had three sisters. They were quite excited about it. My son thought, crikey dad, you were a bit of a lad back in the day!
“I said, look it was the 60s and all of that.
“[The mother] didn’t know where I was and, in all honesty, I think she probably didn’t want to know where I was...I was a complete waste of space in those days.
“I don’t know [if there is any chance of reconciling the relationship with his daughter]: a lot of water’s gone under the bridge.
“I would love to see her again and I’d love to actually see my granddaughters, who I’ve never met.
“It’s very, very delicate. There’s no rules, there’s nothing you can apply. There’s no textbook.”
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