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Allegations against Labour politicians

A number of senior Labour Party politicians were linked in newspaper stories to PIE in December 2013, and again in February 2014, as a result of their involvement with NCCL at time of PIE's affiliation. The party's deputy leader Harriet Harman had been employed by NCCL as an in-house solicitor and met her husband, the MP Jack Dromey, then a member of NCCL's executive committee, while working in this capacity. In addition, Patricia Hewitt MP was NCCL's general secretary for nine years. The trio were labelled "apologists for paedophiles" by the Daily Mail.[19] The former chair of PIE, Tom O'Carroll, claimed the three had not attempted to expel PIE out of fear for the impact this might have on their careers at the NCCL.[20]

Harman denied she had supported PIE while at NCCL and the specific allegation that she supported a campaign for the age of consent to be reduced to ten, and expressed regret at the involvement of the NCCL with PIE.[21][22][23] She accused the right-leaning newspaper of both embarking on a smear campaign and of hypocrisy, making the counter-accusation that the Daily Mail sexualises young girls.[24] Dromey also denied the accusations.[25] Hewitt apologised separately, saying she had been "naive and wrong to accept that PIE was a counseling and campaign group".[26]

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