Work has called for Culture Secretary John Whittingdale to pull back from press regulation choices after news of his association with a sex specialist.
Four daily papers thought about the relationship, which finished in 2014, however chose not to distribute the story.
Shadow society secretary Maria Eagle said it had abandoned him "defenseless" to weight from the press.
Mr Whittingdale, who said he had not known she was a sex specialist, said it had not influenced any of his choices.
Bringing down Street said Mr Whittingdale was "a solitary man qualified for a private life" and had the full certainty of the PM.
As society secretary, Mr Whittingdale's occupation is to direct daily papers and he is at present administering a radical new administrative system under thought in the wake of the Leveson Inquiry into press benchmarks.
Four daily papers thought about the relationship, which finished in 2014, however chose not to distribute the story.
Shadow society secretary Maria Eagle said it had abandoned him "defenseless" to weight from the press.
Mr Whittingdale, who said he had not known she was a sex specialist, said it had not influenced any of his choices.
Bringing down Street said Mr Whittingdale was "a solitary man qualified for a private life" and had the full certainty of the PM.
As society secretary, Mr Whittingdale's occupation is to direct daily papers and he is at present administering a radical new administrative system under thought in the wake of the Leveson Inquiry into press benchmarks.
Ms Eagle said the Conservative pastor ought to "recuse" himself from any further contribution in choices identifying with the request.
Examination: BBC political editorial manager Laura Kuennsberg
Who is John Whittingdale and why does the story make a difference?
Mr Whittingdale told BBC's Newsnight: "Between August 2013 and February 2014, I had an association with somebody who I initially met through Match.com.
"She was a comparative age and lived near me. At no time did she give me any sign of her genuine occupation and I just found this when I was made mindful that somebody was attempting to offer an anecdote about me to tabloid daily papers. When I found, I finished the relationship.
"This is an old story which was somewhat humiliating at the time. The occasions happened much sooner than I took up my present position and it has never had any impact on the choices I have made as society secretary."
At the season of the relationship, Mr Whittingdale was director of the Commons Culture, Media and Sport select council.
In May 2015, over a year after the relationship finished, he was made society secretary. Bringing down Street told Newsnight that it didn't know about Mr Whittingdale's relationship before his arrangement to the bureau work.
Investigation
Norman Smith, BBC right hand political manager
It's a story which you envision most tabloid daily papers would be licking their lips to distribute - and numerous individuals will think that its inquisitive that they picked not to do as such.
Surely it stands out from their present endeavors to upset the directive notwithstanding distribution of subtle elements of the VIP couple that has been in the news.
It's very conceivable that in the new atmosphere after the Leveson Inquiry daily papers just thought "no chance are we going anyplace close to this".
The allegation from Labor and Hacked Off is that daily papers picked not to distribute because to keep it as a danger over the head of John Whittingdale to pressurize him against stepping with the Leveson process.
I assume the incongruity here is that security campaigners are assaulting the press now for, in a manner of speaking, making the best choice and not distributed an anecdote around a man's private life.
Four daily papers - the People, part of the Mirror Group, the Mail on Sunday, from the Daily Mail aggregate, the Sun, some portion of News UK, and the now-shut Independent - had examined the cases yet had closed the story was not in the general population interest, Newsnight reported.
James Cusick, a previous Independent correspondent who took a gander at the story for five months, said: "On the off chance that this individual is settling on these choices - choices that would influence the way individuals take a gander at daily papers, the way daily papers act, the way the BBC is permitted to be - you have a privilege to think about this present man's private life and whether there is something in it he is attempting to keep away from you."
BBC political manager Laura Kuenssberg said the inquiry for Mr Whittingdale was not about his relationship, but rather about his part in directing the press when the daily papers had a tale about his private life.
Who is John Whittingdale?
Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport subsequent to May 2015
Director of the House of Commons Culture, Media and Sport select council for 10 years
Traditionalist MP for Maldon since 1992
Instructed at Winchester College and concentrated on financial matters at University College, London
Has two youngsters, and appreciates TV, movies and music
Shadow society secretary Ms Eagle blamed Mr Whittingdale for changing his position over the Leveson Inquiry, having beforehand upheld the second stage set to investigate ties in the middle of daily papers and the police.
Not long ago, it was accounted for in the Times that the second half would be "discreetly" retired.
The legislature says it has not chose whether to seek after it yet, and a No 10 representative said: "We've generally said that criminal examinations and lawful procedures identifying with Leveson need completely finished up before we consider section two."
Shadow International Development Secretary Diane Abbott said it had for some time been her view that Mr Whittingdale's cozy association with the Murdochs (whose organization News UK distributes the Sun) made him an "unsatisfactory individual to manage press regulation".
'Inquiry of discernment'
On Sunday the news-casting site Byline reported that Mr Whittingdale had an association with an expert dominatrix and fixation escort.
The daily papers told Newsnight they didn't run the story since it was not in general society interest.
Media observer and previous daily paper supervisor Roy Greenslade said daily papers would have been careful about covering such a story in the repercussions of the Leveson report on press guidelines.
"I think it is excessive to blast the daily papers for making the best choice for once," he included Newsnight.
Writer and media observer, Steve Hewlett, said there was not "a solitary shred of proof" that any type of direct contact, impact or endeavored impact had really happened however there remained "the subject of observation".
In any case, Brian Cathcart, from the Hacked Off crusade bunch, demanded Mr Whittingdale was "traded off".
He trusts the daily papers "loaded up" the story for future use and as an approach to potentially put "weight on him".
"Lo and see, we see that he has settled on three truly vital choices switching government arrangement which work completely in the support of the press and, in all honesty, in my perspective at any rate, as opposed to general society," he included.
Dr Evan Harris, official chief of Hacked Off, said: "John Whittingdale now should be clear about whether he realized that daily papers had this story and were not running it, and if so why he didn't tell the executive on his arrangement to the bureau that this potential and glaring individual irreconcilable circumstance existed."
Work's Chris Bryant, who was beforehand shadow society secretary, told the BBC: "It appears the press were purposely holding a sword of Damocles over John Whittingdale."
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