Tim Loughton, the former children’s minister, said he is considering the deploying the “nuclear option” of naming members of a suspected Westminster paedophile ring on the floor of the House of Commons.
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Details of the alleged network running through Whitehall and Parliament were contained in a dossier that was passed by Geoffery Dickens, a Tory MP, to Leon Brittan, then the Home Secretary.
Lord Brittan has confirmed he received a “substantial bundle of papers” but the Home Office has admitted the papers were lost or destroyed .... http://www.telegraph.co.uk
