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Moment whip in Sir Edward Heath’s Government revealed that his job was to cover up scandals ‘involving small boys’ and the PM kept details in a ‘dirt book’

  • Tim Fortescue served as a whip in Heath’s government from 1970 to 1973 
  • He claimed he hushed up MPs’ scandals to store up ‘brownie points’
  • He said: ‘It might be debt, it might be… a scandal involving small boys’
  • Heath himself kept MPs’ secrets in a ‘dirt book’ to keep them in line 

By Martin Robinson for MailOnline

Published: 12:34 GMT, 5 August 2015 | Updated: 15:02 GMT, 5 August 2015

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This is the chilling moment Sir Edward Heath’s Commons enforcer revealed part of his job had been to cover up ‘scandals involving small boys’.

Tim Fortescue, an assistant whip while Sir Edward was prime minister, was part of the so-called ‘Westminster Secret Service’ who would hide dirty secrets for MPs and blackmail them for loyalty.

Mr Fortescue, who died in 2008, admitted Ted Heath had encouraged him to compile a ‘dirt book’ on Tory colleagues and would try to ‘get a chap out of trouble’ before demanding favours in return.

Sir Edward, who has now himself been accused of child abuse, also kept his own to keep his MPs in line. 

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Support: Whip Tim Fortescue, left, admitted that while serving Sir Edward Heath, right while in power, paedophilia was covered up to blackmail MPs into supporting the government

 
 

Mr Fortescue, who died aged 92 in 2008, claimed he could help MPs with scandals ‘involving small boys’ in order to exert control over them to make sure they vote in line with their party’s intentions.

He said: ‘For anyone with any sense, who was in trouble, would come to the whips and tell them the truth, and say now, ‘I’m in a jam, can you help?’.

‘It might be debt, it might be… a scandal involving small boys, or any kind of scandal in which… a member seemed likely to be mixed up in, they’d come and ask if we could help and if we could, we did.

 
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Secrets: Tim Fortescue admitted in a 1995 documentary that the ‘dirt book’ allowed them to blackmail MPs into loyalty

‘And we would do everything we can because we would store up brownie points… and if I mean, that sounds a pretty, pretty nasty reason, but it’s one of the reasons because if we could get a chap out of trouble then, he will do as we ask forever more.’

The admission was made in a 1995 BBC documentary on life in Parliament, which was released last year when the Westminster paedophile scandal first emerged.  

Mr Fortescue’s interview lifted the lid on the lengths the whips’ office would go to in order to prevent an MP’s private life becoming public. 

Since then the Prime Minister has ordered that all secret Tory files about the private lives of MPs are to be opened up for an inquiry into widespread child abuse at the heart of the establishment. 

A panel of experts will examine evidence that successive governments, charities, political parties, the NHS, the BBC and the Church failed to protect children from paedophiles. 

It has been claimed that powerful figures, including MPs, judges, senior military figure and celebrities, were able to avoid prosecution for abusing children as part of an Establishment cover-up.

Sex parties would be held at Dolphin Square in Pimlico and also children in care would be plucked from homes and abused. 

Whistleblower Peter McKelvie has claimed a ‘powerful elite’ of at least 20 prominent establishment figures formed a VIP paedophile ring that abused children for decades. 

Now, for the first time, Sir Edward Heath has been named by police, with five forces now investigating claims he was a child abuser.

Wiltshire Police said today they have received ‘tens’ of calls. 

 
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 Myra Ling Ling Forde (above) apparently threatened to expose Sir Edward Heath as a paedophile in the 1990s

 
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Claim: The accusation emerged after it was revealed police are being investigated over claims they covered up child sex allegations against the former Tory leader (pictured alongside paedophile Jimmy Savile)

A brothel madam who threatened to expose Sir Edward Heath as a paedophile in the 1990s has been revealed as a Filipino grandmother.

Myra Ling Ling Forde, 67, operated a brothel out of her terraced home in Salisbury, Wiltshire, just one mile from where the former prime minister lived after leaving office.

The pensioner, known as ‘Madam Ling Ling’, appears to hold the key to the Sir Edward Heath child sex abuse scandal.  

It came as a 65-year-old man claimed Sir Edward picked him up as a 12-year-old while hitching for a lift after running away from home.

He says he was walking along the A2 in north Kent in 1961 when the former prime minister slowed down and asked if he wanted to stay at his flat in Mayfair.

It was only four years later he recognised Sir Edward as his alleged abuser when he saw a photo of him in the paper sharing a joke with Margaret Thatcher and Tory peer Dame Pat Hornsby Smith. 

He claims two months after the alleged attack he went to the authorities who dismissed him as a ‘fantasist’ and a ‘liar’. 

Friends of the politician claimed he was the victim of a smear campaign and predicted he would be vindicated on all the allegations.

Reports emerged yesterday that Sir Edward is being looked at as part of Operation Midland, a Scotland Yard inquiry into claims a VIP paedophile ring operated in the 1970s and 1980s.

States of Jersey Police (SoJP) confirmed the ex-PM features in Operation Whistle, an inquiry into alleged historical abuse on the island. It was launched in June as part of Operation Hydrant, a UK-wide co-ordination of sex abuse investigations. Later, Kent Police said it had received a report of a sexual assault in the east of the county in the 1960s. A spokesman said: ‘The victim has named Sir Edward Heath in connection with the allegation. Detectives are making initial inquiries and will obtain a full account from the victim.’

Wiltshire Police said its officers and the NSPCC received ‘a number of calls’ following appeals for information. The force said in a statement: ‘The investigation team will be reviewing the information and following up any lines of inquiry, 

 

 

 

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david, St helier, about 10 hours ago

NOTHING surprises me any longer when it comes to politicians.

 

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Don Quixote, La Mancha, Spain, about 11 hours ago

This “news” is 30 years old and taken from a TV programme. Anyone who claims shock or outrage is just demonstrating their ignorance.

 

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NA girl, Northallerton, United Kingdom, about 11 hours ago

Anyone who has read Quentin Letts parliamentary sketch will know keeping tabs and secrets is standard practice for whips. It seems every generation has enough skeletons to ensure MPs vote the right way. Politics is a dirty business.

 

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katyd68, Alicante, Spain, about 11 hours ago

This is like the plot of a cheap spy thriller, sadly though, the abused are real, and must have had to endure hell on earth. I dare say they are still suffering to this day!

 

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Ziva8, England, United Kingdom, about 11 hours ago

Then that makes you as guilty as them in my book.

 

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mick, exeter, about 11 hours ago

if all the protagonists are dead…anything can be made-up…sounds more like a soap opera than a police investigation….

 

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Diddlydee, Dunham-on-the-Hill, United Kingdom, about 11 hours ago

If the allegations are true, the police and security services must surely have been involved, as every PM is under 24 hour guard until the day they die.

 

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Elizabeth Bennet, North West England, United Kingdom, about 11 hours ago

It would have needed only one honest person in this situation but they would have needed irrevocable evidence before the police would have investigated. I’m losing all faith in British justice.

 

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Weptthetowedsprocket, Despair, Rwanda, about 11 hours ago

ROTTEN FROM THE TOP !

 

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emiller7, leek, United Kingdom, about 11 hours ago

sir Edward heath who remains dead and cannot defend himself!

 

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Arno, Exeter, United Kingdom, about 11 hours ago

Makes a complete mockery of the vote. The little democracy we have is a complete sham.

 

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