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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Jon Stone

Boris Johnson refuses to criticise paedophile Tory MP’s place on sex abuse panel

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Boris Johnson has declined to apologise after it emerged that a Tory MP who molested a 15 year-old boy was advising the government on child sexual exploitation.

Imran Ahmad Khan, the then Conservative MP for Wakefield, was sitting on a Home Office-backed expert panel in December 2020, a year after his victim says he had complained to the Conservative party.

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