Report from home affairs select committee concludes Watson’s remarks in Daily Mirror were inappropriate Tom Watson should construct a written apology to Lord Brittan’s family,and the police were wrong to be influenced by fright of “media criticism and public cynicism” in its handling of a 40-year-faded rape allegation against the peer, MPs have said.
The criticism of Watson – Labours deputy leader, and who referred to Leon Brittan as “evil” in the press after the Conservative peer died in January – and the Metropolitan police service (MPS) came in a report from the home affairs select committee. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com