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.
Labour MP Simon Danczuk, who has urged Lord Brittan to spell out what he knew about the Geoffrey Dickens dossier concerning abuse networks operating around Westminster, told ITV News he believed that the former home secretary was "passive" about the accusations.
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.