Peter Morrison: Margaret Thatcher’s Top Aide

October 26th, 2012

Via: International Business Times:

The politician implicated in an alleged child sex ring at 10 Downing Street was Sir Peter Morrison, one of Margaret Thatcher’s closest advisers, IBTimes UK can reveal.

Morrison was the mystery “senior aide” MP Tom Watson alluded to at Prime Minister’s Questions (PMQs). Watson’s allegation of a paedophile ring close to Downing Street stunned the House of Commons.

Morrison was a Conservative politician who acted as Thatcher’s parliamentary private secretary while she was prime minister. He also masterminded her failed bid to hold on to the leadership in 1990.

Morrison left office in 1992 and died in 1995.

The sexual tastes of the prime minister’s trusted adviser were an open secret in some quarters but were concealed by a police cover-up and threats of libel by Morrison himself, according to a former editor of the Sunday Mirror, Peter Connew.

Simon Heffer wrote in the Daily Telegraph in 2009: “At least one member of Mrs Thatcher’s first cabinet was homosexual. Her last parliamentary private secretary, Sir Peter Morrison, was a constant trial to the whips, who were afraid that his late-night cruises around and skirmishes in Sussex Gardens would come to the attention of the press.”

Connew told IBTimes UK that he saw first-hand how efforts to name and shame Morrison were hampered.

Morrison, the MP for Chester, was arrested more than once for pestering young boys in public toilets for sex, said Connew. When police officers tried to charge him, the cover-up began.

One Response to “Peter Morrison: Margaret Thatcher’s Top Aide”

  1. tal says:

    Interesting redirection:

    Morrison was the mystery “senior aide” MP Tom Watson alluded to at Prime Minister’s Questions (PMQs). Watson’s allegation of a paedophile ring close to Downing Street stunned the House of Commons.

    compare & contrast:

    Mr Watson said he was not referring to the late Tory MP Sir Peter Morrison, a former aide to Margaret Thatcher.

    http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/jimmy-savile-scandal-tom-watson-1398159

    I had also read this elsewhere last week but the link wasn’t immediately forthcoming.

    Everyone knows we’re talking about Tony Blair here, right?

    Alleged Pedophiles at Helm of Britain’s War Machine, Massive Cover-Up

    http://www.propagandamatrix.com/alleged_pedophiles.html

    I actually remember when this happened in 2002.

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