Former Conservative MP Harvey Proctor has called on Starmer to “apologize as leader of the Labor Party for considering Tom Watson a member of the House of Lords and putting forward his name”.
Former Labor MP Tom Watson had falsely accused Mr Proctor and other senior public figures of being involved in a VIP pedophile ring which led to a £2.5m investigation.
When asked how this reflects on the leader of the opposition, and possibly our next Prime Minister, Mr Proctor replied: “He shouldn’t be anywhere near number 10.”
“He should never be Prime Minister. Starmer created this problem while he was Director of Public Prosecutions and refuses to answer questions about his role in it.
Proctor, 75, slammed his newly confirmed colleague Tom Watson for an apology that did not address all victims of false accusations by high-level public figures involved in a VIP pedophile ring.
Proctor has called on Keir Starmer (right) to “apologize as leader of the Labor Party for considering Tom Watson (left) as a member of the House of Lords and putting forward his name”.
‘He inaugurated the believe-the-victim policy, which the Metropolitan Police adopted, and believed Carl Beech even before investigating him because he was supposedly a victim.
And they went on television and said that Carl Beech was credible and truthful when in fact he was incredible and false.
‘So Starmer should also apologize for his role as Director of Public Prosecutions. “I bet he won’t,” said Mr. Proctor.
Former Conservative chancellor Lord Norman Lamont called the announcement of Watson’s peerage in October “an absolute disgrace” and a “stain” on the Lords.
Labor leader Keir Starmer pledged to abolish the House of Lords, but Proctor said he did not believe Watson’s peerage was due to sabotage by the upper house, but rather that Starmer genuinely believed Watson was “a good guy”.
Proctor also criticized his recently confirmed teammate, Tom Watson, for an apology that did not address all the high-profile public figures who were victims of the false accusations.
“I think his apology, as far as it went, was actually to curry favor with the House of Lords. It is not a true and proper apology.
“He has never apologized to me. And I am the only surviving person involved in Operation Midland, as one of the victims of Carl Beech and the police.
He added: ‘Are you waiting until I die to apologize to me?’
Proctor added that the impact of Tom Watson’s false allegations about his involvement in a VIP pedophile ring “will never go away” until the day he dies.
On Wednesday, after being confirmed as a peer, Tom Watson addressed the House of Lords for the first time and apologized for his role in Lord Brittan’s false allegation of sexual abuse crimes, saying: “I apologize unreservedly to Lady Brittan for the role she played in the investigation into historical child sexual abuse.
‘Their experiences led to several recommendations about how the police behave.
“I am sorry and I owe it to you to work to achieve those goals in this House in the months and years to come.”
Carl Beech (pictured) was sentenced to 18 years in prison after a court found he had made up the allegations.
Lucy Neville-Rolfe, a Cabinet minister, praised Watson’s speech “and the apology he rightly made to Lady Brittan”.
Proctor, who lost his home and job following the allegations and investigation, which cost £2.5million, was emotional as he told MailOnline of the horror he felt when he discovered the BBC News team had shown photos of three children. murdered Carl Beech.
Beech falsely identified one of these children as a boy murdered by Harvey Proctor.
‘They have never apologized for doing that. In fact, they still employ this senior journalist who did that,” he said.
The former MP said he was interviewed by the BBC the day after the raid on his home, at his request, but that his appearances since then have been canceled by the news broadcaster eight times.
He said the BBC had invited him to give his opinion on the latest Operation Midland story “as a sort of unpaid investigator” and then, just before he was supposed to be interviewed on the Today programme, they canceled his interview. Not once, not twice, but eight times.
The MailOnline has contacted the BBC for comment.
The former Conservative MP, who represented Basildon from 1979 to 1983 and Billericay from 1983 to 1987, also spoke of the support he received from his late brother during his darkest hours.
‘I had a brother, now he’s dead. At least he came to know that I was innocent, not that I needed to be told, that he saw my innocence beyond a doubt when he was alive.
‘He was a great support mentally, physically and financially.
‘Of course you know who your friends are, you lose a lot of friends. “True friends support you and I’m grateful to them, otherwise I wouldn’t be here,” Mr Proctor said, apparently holding back tears.
But the damaging impact of false allegations leveled by fantasist Carl Beecher, also known as ‘Nick’, and promoted by former Labor Party deputy leader Tom Watson, could have lasting consequences for Harvey Proctor.
“It feels like there was a five or six year period that I lost and when you’re my age, 75 or 76 next month, you can’t afford to lose years of your life because you don’t have that.” many left.
And to restore my position to what it was before this started, I probably don’t have years left.
‘The damage continues. Yes, I have my job back. Yes, I got my house back after six or seven years, but none of that can be undone. It cannot be deleted.
‘You can’t just brush it off as if it never happened. And it’s something you have to live with.
‘I’ve said it before, and I mean it, I know I will feel the impact on the day I die. It will never go away.’
Carl Beech was sentenced to 18 years in prison after a court found he had made up the allegations. Lord Brittan died in 2015, before he could be publicly exonerated.
In February 2016, former Metropolitan Police Commissioner Lord Hogan-Howe asked retired High Court judge Sir Richard Henriques to conduct a review of the Metropolitan Police Service’s handling of a series of allegations. made by Carl Beech, known as Operation Midland. .
Mr. Proctor lost both his home and his job following the allegations. Pictured: (left to right) Harvey Proctor, Lincoln Seligman and Daniel Janner QC, ahead of the sentencing of Westminster VIP pedophile accuser Carl Beech.
The report outlined serious failings in Operation Midland and Operation Vincente, the investigation into an allegation by another person alleging rape by Lord Brittan.
Mr Proctor said there had been a “cover-up by senior Met officers over anything to do with Operation Midland”.
‘At this time, no senior officer has been held accountable or even interviewed about what went wrong in Operation Midland.
‘It has been a high-level decision by the Met that its officers should not be held to account.
‘Quite the opposite. “They have all been enriched, promoted and ennobled,” said Proctor, investigated within the framework of Operation Midland.
The former MP tweeted last week that Lady Susan Hussey, who recently came under fire for her allegedly racist investigation into Ngozi Fulani’s ethnicity, was “dignity personified”.
Asked what made Lady Susan’s apology “worthy”, Mr Proctor replied: “Honesty, fullness and admission of personal responsibility.”
“As far as Operation Midland goes, I don’t think Tom Watson demonstrated any of that.”