It would be, instead, replaced by a taskforce headed by Savile, who had been involved in the facility on a volunteer basis since the 1960s, but would now be given free rein of the hospital.

This was rubber stamped by Junior Health Minister Edwina Currie, who wrote ‘Attaboy!’ in her diaries on hearing Savile’s plans for reform at the hospital—which included union-busting, as Savile alleged that inflated overtime payments was rife among the unionised workforce. Currie later conceded that this was likely Savile blackmailing staff who could blow the whistle on his abuse.

Read the NHS investigations into Savile and there are numerous examples of everyday people with little power standing up to Savile, or at least doing what they could reasonably do, within their small domain, to protect those who were in their care. There are no such stories within the Thatcher government: only an elite who took him at face value time and time again.

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