Thatcher was the driving force behind knighthood for paedophile Jimmy Saville

The knighthood handed to vile Jimmy Savile followed a secret crusade by his pal Lady Thatcher — whose own top aides did not want the sinister creep made a “Sir”, The Sun can reveal. 

They were so fearful of a scandal erupting around him they talked Maggie out of bestowing the accolade on him four times when she was Prime Minister — before she finally got her way. 

Previously unseen documents — prised from the clutches of the Cabinet Office after a nine-month battle by The Sun — show how the BBC star’s “strange and complex” private life set alarm bells ringing at No10 TWENTY-SEVEN years ago .... http://www.thesun.co.uk