Home Office 'gave Paedophile Information Exchange £70,000'

Payments were made to the Paedophile Information
Exchange during Jim Callaghan's administration

A vile paedophile group with links to senior Labour politicians was funded with huge amounts of taxpayers' money, it has emerged.

The Paedophile Information Exchange was allegedly given £70,000 by the Home Office between 1977 and 1980 - the equivalent today of about £400,000.

The astonishing claims made by a whistleblower are now being investigated by the police and the government.

They come after the Mail exposed shocking links between the paedophile group and the National Council for Civil Liberties, a pressure group run at the time by former Health Secretary Patricia Hewitt and Labour's deputy leader Harriet Harman.  (more...)

Home Office 'gave Paedophile Information Exchange £70,000'

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