UNITED KINGDOM
AO Advocates
Posted by: A.Dean on Nov 08 2012
Another week passes and a new front opens in the expanding investigations into child sexual abuse in our society.
Labour MP Tom Watson’s high-profile push the past two weeks for the government to revisit its inquiry into a north Wales paedophile ring operating in the 1970s and 1980s has met with early success. Watson first raised the issue in a question to David Cameron on 24 October, when he confronted the Prime Minister about the potential links between this paedophile ring and “a senior aide to a former Prime Minister”. Cameron parried Watson’s question, calling the allegations “very difficult and complex”, but the issue has not gone away.
On the contrary. In fact it has been revealed that the Prime Minister in question was Margaret Thatcher, and the senior aide the late Tory MP Sir Peter Morrison, though details remain hazy. Watson is controlling the dialogue surrounding this issue and his call for an inquiry has Cameron and the Conservatives playing defence in the media.
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