The guy that exposed Tory sex offenders? You absolute ****wit. (also noting your other baseless stats)
Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA)
See also: Westminster paedophile dossier
During a Home Affairs Select Committee hearing in July 2014, Danczuk called for Leon Brittan, Home Secretary between 1983 and 1985, to make public what he knew about a dossier of allegations against politicians presented to him by Geoffrey Dickens (1931 – 1995, MP until 1995), which could identify several historic child sex abusers.[24][25] The Home Office stated that the dossier had not been retained in their files. Former Director of Public Prosecutions Lord Macdonald said the circumstances in which the dossier had gone missing were alarming, and recommended an inquiry into what happened.[26]
Prime Minister David Cameron subsequently asked the Home Office Permanent Secretary to investigate what happened to the missing dossier. The same month, Danczuk wrote to the Director of Public Prosecutions asking for a review of the decision not to investigate certain historical allegations of sexual abuse made against senior Westminster politicians.[27]
Danczuk’s investigation significantly contributed to the decision of the government to set up the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse, a statutory inquiry under the Inquiries Act 2005, which opened on 9 July 2015.[28] During the investigation, it was revealed that former Liberal Party leader David Steel learned about Cyril Smith’s behaviour in 1979, but did nothing about it, and later nominated him for a knighthood. As a result, on 25 February 2020, he resigned from the Liberal Democrats and resigned from the House of Lords on 27 March 2020.[29]
For his investigative work on child abuse, Danczuk was named Campaigner of the Year by the Political Studies Association in November 2014,[30] and won the Contrarian Prize in June 2015.[31]
Suspension by the Labour Party and resignation
In December 2015, Danczuk’s membership of the Labour Party was suspended, following reports he had exchanged explicit messages with a 17-year-old girl.[32] Danczuk apologised for his behaviour, which he described as “inappropriate and stupid”, and said the incident occurred during an extremely low point of his life after his second marriage had collapsed.[33] Danczuk was not found to have broken the law and was not expelled from the party,