This line put out by Jack Dromey when the NCCL / PIE allegations resurfaced last week is coming back to hurt him:

“During my time on the NCCL Executive, I was at the forefront of repeated public condemnations of PIE and their despicable views. I was then the first to argue that paedophiles could have no place in NCCL.”

The Sun has got hold of the NCCL handbook that Guido previously revealed promoted the Paedophile Information Exchange. They have found that Dromey was one of the book’s contributors.

Dromey was also quoted in a 1976 newspaper report on the NCCL call to lower the age of consent. He is said to have commented:

“We anticipated a degree of hysteria when the report was published but we are very happy with the reception.”

He now denies ever saying those words. Harman bore the brunt of last week’s intrigue though it is increasingly evident that it’s Dromey who has much tougher questions to answer…