Paedomania: Maggie & Me

A FORMER top policeman has told how he warned PM Margaret Thatcher that one of her senior aides was suspected of holding sex parties for underage boys.

Personal bodyguard Barry Strevens informed Maggie of damning intelligence that Peter Morrison could be a paedo — but she ignored it and promoted him to a key role regardless.

Maggie appointed Morrison, who she trusted as a loyal confidant, to be deputy party chairman in the 1980s despite police misgivings about his private life.

Besides rumours of sex parties, stories abounded of him kerb-crawling and being cautioned for having sex with a boy of 15 in a public toilet.

Old Etonian Morrison — now dead — has since also been linked to scandals at children’s homes in Wales.

Last night Barry, now 70 and retired, said of Mrs Thatcher’s decision to promote him: “I wouldn’t say she was naive but I would say she would not have thought people around her would be like that...'

The Sun on Sunday - finally naming Morrison who The Sunday People front paged last week.

Boys' Home Scandal: Heath, Thatcher And Hague Implicated

Rod Richards, a former Conservative MP and ex-leader of the Welsh Tories, made the shocking allegation that he had seen evidence linking Sir Peter Morrison to the North Wales children’s homes case, in which up to 650 children in 40 homes were sexually, physically and emotionally abused over 20 years.
Mr Richards also linked a second leading Tory grandee – now dead – to the scandals at homes including Bryn Estyn and Bryn Alyn Hall, both near Wrexham...

Both the Mail on Sunday and Daily Star Sunday have gone big with this today. 
Though the Star's story - involving an unnamed rent boy (who has since apparently "vanished") and an unnamed cabinet minister and from an unnamed police "source" - is so vague it's hard to tell what it's referring to, and if it's connected to the above.
Or indeed, if the Star haven't made it all up.
The Peter Morrison story was broken by Edwina Currie who wrote in her diaries that he was "a noted pederast" - a story The Sunday Times broke last week.
This led to several daft conspiracy theories, and speculation Edward Heath was involved.
The Independent asked 'Was there a paedophile ring in No 10?'
Erm, in a word... no.
Two more questions:
Who is the late Tory grandee mentioned - and why isn't he named?
If he means Heath too, then why not just say so?
The informed consensus seems to be that he was gay, but incredibly repressed, and almost certainly never had sex with anyone.
And moreover, why didn't Rod Richards and Edwina Currie speak out about this before?

PS Sorry for the sensationalist headline, but it seems to be obligatory in the current climate of hysteria.