Clegg dismisses new Cyril Smith claims

Nick Clegg made a desperate attempt to distance his party from allegations about Cyril Smith today by calling the paedophile MP a 'Labour politician'.

Mr Clegg claimed the obese sexual predator did not belong to the Liberal Democrats at the time of his abuse of scores of young boys.

But in fact Smith took the party whip for four years in Parliament and was feted as a Lib-Dem grandee in the years before he died.

The Lib-Dem leader was accused by a member of the public of having 'washed his hands' of the issue by refusing to order an internal party investigation into Smith.

He insisted there would be no probe despite new revelations in Saturday's Mail that the Liberal Party - a forerunner to today's Lib Dems - offered hush money to an activist after she complained about Smith molesting a teenage boy.

Mr Clegg was confronted over the Smith scandal during a phone-in show on LBC radio.  (more...)

Clegg dismisses new Cyril Smith claims

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