Operation Conifer: Funding

Lord Howell of Guildford Excerpts

Thursday 12th July 2018 Lords Chamber

[Lord Campbell-Savours (Lab)]

My Lords—

[Lord Howell of Guildford (Con)]

I see my noble friend’s difficulty in this matter, but would she not agree that, following the closure of the report by Wiltshire Police last year, the whole matter has been left in a most unsatisfactory state of limbo, with appalling stains left on the character of a deceased former Prime Minister? Has my noble friend noted—I am sure she has—that his accuser has now been charged with 12 counts of perverting the course of justice and one of fraud? May I urge her—I think with the backing of many of your Lordships—to take back the matter to her colleague the Home Secretary and point out that, in the interests of justice, further action is now required from his department and from the Government?