Margaret Thatcher's Cabinet chief Lord Armstrong won't name child abuse Tory MP - Daily Mail

Former Cabinet Secretary Lord Armstrong was warned by the security services in 1986 that an MP had ‘a penchant for small boys’. But no action was taken and yesterday Lord Armstrong, who refused to name the MP involved, insisted the allegations were just ‘shadows of a rumour’. It emerged this week that MI5 had known about the allegations but failed to investigate after the MP denied them. Sir Antony Duff, then MI5 director-general, wrote to Lord (then Sir Robert) Armstrong, saying the man ‘has a penchant for small boys’. The MP has not been named but other papers in the files related to key government figures from the 1980s, including Mrs Thatcher’s former parliamentary secretary Sir Peter Morrison and former Home Secretary Leon Brittan. Lord Armstrong told the Daily Mail: ‘I thought MI5’s actions were correct at the time. I think they were right to report the rumour, they were right to make what inquiries they could and they were right to come to the conclusion they did. Source: www.dailymail.co.uk