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Leon Brittan, the home secretary who organised Thatcher’s national army of police to wage war on the miners in the 1984-85 strike, has died aged 75.
It is not clear whether history will remember him as as the home secretary who did Thatcher’s dirty work, as a paedophile or someone who covered up for them, or even as a rapist.
Could he even have fallen victim to Establishment anti-semitism, particularly from the spooks in British intelligence? Let’s look at the facts.
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