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Amid the oak panelling and green leather benches of the House of Commons chamber, Labour MP Lloyd Russell-Moyle stood yesterday and added a new landmark to 800 years of Parliamentary history.

“Next year I’ll be marking an anniversary,” he told the House. ”Ten years since I became HIV positive.”

It was the first time a serving Member of Parliament has spoken in the chamber about such a diagnosis.

“It is a scary thing to do,” he told the Mirror in an exclusive interview earlier.

“But I am a paid politician and one of my jobs is to show how the personal becomes political, and vice versa.

“That doesn’t mean the public need to know the ins and outs of every politician’s personal life, but it does mean where there are links and you can help others, you need to speak out.”

The majesty of Parliament is a far cry from the room where a decade ago Lloyd, then a 22-year-old student, received his life-changing diagnosis.

“They took me into a consulting room about the size of a disabled toilet, and decorated in pretty much the same kind of way: plasticated seating, false ceilings, bright neon light and beige walls. Then the person who’d done my blood test and a woman counsellor came in.

“They said, ‘We’ve got some bad news’ and, ‘Is there anyone you’ll be able to talk to afterwards?’ and I just said ‘Yeah, yeah, just tell me what it is.’

“And when they do, it hits you like a wall. My first feeling was that it’s some kind of Candid Camera and someone’s going to pop around the corner and say ‘Surprise!’. It would be a horrible kind of joke, but you still hope that might be it.

“Or that it’s some kind of stringent sex education lesson to scare the s**t out of you. But unfortunately it’s not that.

“Your mouth goes dry and there’s that sick-but-not-sick feeling – like you want to get rid of everything inside you, but there’s nothing inside you because it’s as if everything’s been taken away.

“And your brain’s working at a million miles an hour so you’re not really listening to what they’re saying – that’s just mumbling in the background.

“I remember a really strong thought