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Patricia Hewitt 'called for age of consent to be lowered to 10'

A civil rights group press release from 1976 with only the name of ex-Labour minister Patricia Hewitt on it called for the age of consent to be lowered to 10, The Sun claims. She has apologised for the organisation's links to paedophile campaigners.

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Hewitt: I'm sorry I got it wrong over paedophile group

Patricia Hewitt said that as general secretary of the NCCL in the 1970s she took responsibility for the mistakes that were made and apologised for having "got it wrong" on the Paedophile Information Exchange.

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