More controversial links to Leon Brittan

Fiona Woolf

 

Oh  ! They so want to have an inquiry into Child Abuse at the highest levels, do they not?

From the Telegraph 2014:

"A Labour MP was last night embroiled in a row over the use of parliamentary privilege after he told the Commons that Lord Brittan, the former home secretary, had been accused of "improper conduct with children".

"Jim Hood, the Labour MP for Lanark and Hamilton East, was denounced by Conservatives after he used a debate about coal miners to discuss reports about Lord Brittan. "

"Lord Brittan has been accused of failing to act on a dossier about alleged VIP paedophile rings given to him by MP Geoffrey Dickens in 1983. The peer has denied the claims. .."

"The rumours that Sir Leon Brittan was involved with misconduct with children does not come as news to miners who were striking in 1984. When miners were going up into the dock in magistrates’ courts we were aware and miners were declaring… the point is miners were saying in the dock in magistrates’ courts throughout the strike that they objected to instructions coming from the home secretary when there was reports about child abuse being linked with that same home secretary."

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/law-and-order/11194280/Labour-MP-is-condemned-for-linking-Leon-Brittan-to-child-abuse.html

"The new chairman of the government inquiry into child sex abuse has recently been criticised for her links to Lord Brittan.
Fiona Woolf, the Lord Mayor of London, has faced calls to resign after she admitted that she entertained the former home secretary and his wife three times at dinner parties at her house, and twice went to his home in central London for dinner.

Members of the Home Affairs Select Committee are considering recalling Ms Woolf after new evidence emerged about her links to Lord (Leon) Brittan, the former Home Secretary previously criticised for failing to act over the scandal. "

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/conservative/11189292/Fiona-Woolf-could-face-second-grilling-from-MPs-over-links-to-Leon-Brittan.html

"Fiona Woolf, the controversial head of the Government’s child sex abuse inquiry, is under renewed pressure after it emerged another member of her inquiry panel has links with Lord Brittan. "

"The Telegraph can disclose that Dame Moira Gibb – who was appointed to sit on the panel on Tuesday along with a number of other experts – has admitted a close personal friend worked with Lord Brittan during part of the period which will be closely scrutinised by the inquiry."

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/law-and-order/11186410/Second-member-of-Fiona-Woolf-inquiry-admits-controversial-links-with-Lord-Brittan.html

See also http://alicemooreuk.blogspot.co.uk/2014/10/the-inquiry-panel.html