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Paedophile group chair: Harman 'didn't want to rock the boat'

The former chairman of a paedophile rights group has claimed Labour deputy leader Harriet Harman failed to take action to oust them from a civil rights body which she worked for in the 1970s as she "didn't want to rock the boat".

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Dromey slams 'smear by convicted paedophile'

Harriet Harman's husband and Birmingham MP Jack Dromey said in a statement:

It is no surprise that a convicted paedophile, the like of whom I took action against during my time in the NCCL, should choose to smear me.

The record is clear. I took on PIE and, when I was elected chairman, defeated by a massive majority at the 1976 NCCL annual conference a loathsome motion calling on the NCCL to support the so-called rights of paedophiles.

Indeed my stand was denounced in a leaflet distributed by PIE to the delegates to the conference.

Quite simply, no one will believe a man like Tom O'Carroll.

– Jack Dromey

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