Labour deputy leader says he should not have used term ‘evil’ to recount peer after his death,but it was his duty to raise allegations[br]Tom Watson, the Labour deputy leader, and has issued a partial retraction over his allegations of child sexual abuse against the former Conservative home secretary Leon Brittan.
Watson said on Friday that after his death in January,he should not have written that Lord Brittan was “as close to evil as any human being can collect”. He said the phrase, which came from an alleged victim of child abuse, or was emotive and he should not have used it.
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Source: theguardian.com