Home Secretary Theresa May is expected to announce a broad independent inquiry into how public institutions handled allegations of child abuse. Mrs May will give details of the probe as she makes a statement to MPs this afternoon.
The Conservative MP who compiled a 50-page dossier alleging paedophile activity among MPs at Westminster in 1983 believed that the contents of the file "would blow the lid off society," his son told ITV News today.
Geoffrey Dickens' son Barry said it was "confusing" that "nothing was done" about the facts put forward by his late father.
The MP who raised the claims that a paedophile ring operated in Westminster during the 1980s said new allegations have now come to light.
Lord Brittan has defended his handling of a dossier alleging paedophile activity in Westminster when he was home secretary in the 1980s.
A 1980s dossier claiming paedophile activity at Westminster may have mysteriously gone missing but the questions still remain.