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A Tory candidate has claimed she healed a man who was deaf in both ears through the power of prayer.

Kristy Adams, the Conservative candidate in Hove and Portslade, said she laid her hands on the man’s ears and said: “Be healed in Jesus’ name.”

When she removed her hands, she claimed, he could hear without his hearing aids.

Mrs Adams told the Mirror, tonight: “Like millions of Christians in the UK, I believe in praying to help people."

She added: “Millions of Christians around the world pray for people's health - that's a good thing isn't it?

"It's about tolerance and we are a city of tremendous tolerance."

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Mrs Adams, who was involved in Theresa May’s campaign against modern slavery, spoke of the healing at the King’s Arms Church in Bedford in 2010.

She recounted how she had been told she would see people healed in a “prophecy” two years earlier.

Mrs Adams was selected on Monday as the Conservative candidate for Hove, where Labour have a slim majority of just 1,236 votes.

In the interview, which was published on the Church’s website, she said she had restored the man’s hearing while representing her church at the Vitality Show, a spirituality and new age health expo held at Earl’s Court in March 2009.

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More than 32,000 people visited the three day event, which featured yoga classes, Reiki and Indian head massage, a day spa and stands from more than 350 health, fitness and spirituality organisations.

She was part of a group running a “healing centre” at the fair, where volunteers distributed bible scriptures and encouraged visitors to “give their lives to Jesus.”

She said: “He had hearing aids in both ears and I just thought that wasn’t right. It just annoyed me.

“So I said: ‘I don’t think that’s quite right, is it? That you should be serving God like this.”

“So I said: ‘Can I pray for you?’ - and his eyes lit up, which is unusual when you offer to pray for someone’s healing. You don’t expect that.”

After she removed her hands, she said, he could hear without his hearing aids.

“I don’t know if he was more surprised or me.”

She said they had prayed together a few more times, “just to make sure. I’m a cynic.”

She said a man working on a “new age” stand nearby was “freaked out” by the apparent miracle.

Mrs Adams was elected as a Conservative Party councillor in Bedford the following year.

Labour MP Paul Flynn said: “Egads. Can we get this on the National Health?

“I think they’ll probably make her the science spokesman if she does get elected for the Tory party. She seems up to their standard of unscientific science.”

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The church’s online videos show worshippers claiming to have been healed of ailments ranging from lost sense of smell to leukaemia, all through the power of prayer.

One article on their website said: "In January of this year I had to have quite a major operation to remove a large cyst from one of my ovaries.

"The hospital discovered the cyst early in December and as more tests were done I found out that I was at risk of this cyst being cancerous.

"I also learned that I had to consent to the surgeons giving me a hysterectomy if they deemed it necessary once they’d assessed the full extent of the problem during surgery.

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"The whole experience was incredibly traumatic yet I knew that this was a great opportunity to seek God for a miracle and so I prayed consistently...

"Amazingly everything turned out clear in the end and I am still able to have children.

"God was clearly involved in the whole process and the outcome and for that I’m incredibly grateful."

Family friend Eve Burt - the wife of MP Alistair Burt - used to attend the Bedford Conservative Women's Association with Ms Adams.

Mrs Burt told the Mirror: "She never talked about it [the healing incident]

"But she used to be part of one of the big churches here that has a healing ministry."

Mrs Burt said that Mrs Adams attended Kings Arms Church during her time as a councillor in Bedford which teaches people can be healed by prayer and includes articles on the subject on its website.

Mrs Adams, 46, grew up in Sussex and lives with Julian, her husband of 24 years and their two children.

She and Julian are co-directors of an attic conversion company, based in Hove.

In May last year (2016), she won a gold medal as part of a team that created a “modern slavery garden” at the Chelsea Flower Show, a project backed by Prime Minister Theresa May when she was Home Secretary.

Mrs May visited the garden, posing for photos with Mrs Adams and gardener Juliet Sergeant.

King’s Arms Church is an evangelical Christian community based in Bedford and founded in 1992.

The church is an offshoot of social justice organisation The King’s Arms Project, which was formed in 1989 by Tory peer Baroness Stroud.

Tory former culture minister Ed Vaizey volunteered with the project in 2006.