SWANK TIMES OF INFAMY
Morrison v Memory: The Case of the Untouchable Aide
Metadata
Filed: 18 August 2025
Reference: SWANK TIMES – Westminster History (Morrison)
Filename: 2025-08-20_SWANKTIMES_WestminsterHistory_PeterMorrison.pdf
Summary: The institutional shielding of Peter Morrison MP exemplifies Westminster’s culture of safeguarding betrayal — reputation preserved, children abandoned.
I. What Happened
Peter Morrison, Conservative MP and Parliamentary Private Secretary to Margaret Thatcher, was long trailed by allegations of sexual abuse of boys in the North West of England.
Despite repeated reports to police, intelligence services, and senior politicians, Morrison remained cocooned within the sanctum of Westminster privilege. He held high office, retained access to the Prime Minister, and was defended not by law but by loyalty.
II. What the Complaint Establishes
That Westminster, once again, proved allergic to candour.
Allegations existed.
Warnings were issued.
Prosecutions never came.
Why? Because political continuity was deemed of greater value than the safeguarding of children.
III. Why SWANK Logged It
Because Morrison’s impunity was not exceptional, but archetypal.
His case reveals the systemic reflex: defer to the powerful, dismiss the vulnerable, and hope silence suffices. This reflex is the same today — a mother files an audit demand, and instead of truth, she is met with retaliatory removals.
IV. Violations
Safeguarding Duty: subverted by the culture of deference.
Equality Before the Law: suspended in favour of political hierarchy.
Article 8 ECHR (Family Life): now mirrored in 2025 by retaliatory interference.
Public Trust: eroded by deliberate concealment, then and now.
V. SWANK’s Position
Peter Morrison stands as a precedent of concealment, a man whose proximity to power rendered him untouchable. Westminster’s silence then mirrors Westminster’s retaliation now.
Thus we log it: not as history, but as living evidence.
Where institutions prize reputation over children, their legacy is not one of governance but of betrayal.
Closing Declaration
This entry forms part of the SWANK Evidentiary Catalogue’s “Westminster History” series — proof that the culture of concealment is not incidental but constitutional.
✒️ Polly Chromatic
Founder & Director, SWANK London Ltd