Geoffrey Dickens: a clown whose campaign is finally taken seriously

The former Tory MP's tendency to make gaffes made many dismiss his allegations of child abuse in high places

Former Tory MP, Geoffrey Dickens, would have been tickled pink (he used that kind of language) to discover that, nearly 20 years after his premature death at the age of 63, his name is again on newspaper front pages, his failed campaign to expose a paedophile ring in high places, being taken seriously at last. He was not averse to publicity.

Dickens, a plump man with a red face and booming voice, who represented Huddersfield West and later Littleborough and Saddleworth from 1979 to 1995, always took himself more seriously than many colleagues did in Margaret Thatcher's heyday.

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