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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
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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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.
‘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.
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'.
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