Allegedly paid his brother in excess of £6,000 for cleaning services and claimed for the same plumbing repair bill twice. Downing Street responded by saying that Brown paid his brother, who in turn paid the cleaner as the cleaner worked for them both but preferred to be paid by a single person for National Insurance reasons. The cleaner was hired by the Prime Minister's sister-in-law to clean his brother's flat but then expanded her duties to include cleaning the Prime Minister's London flat.

Meanwhile, the Commons Fees Office stated that the double payment for a repair bill was a mistake on their part and that Brown had repaid it in full.

Young Girls were Thrown under the Bus at all Levels of Government

A report from an Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA) censured local authorities for failing to investigate networks sexually exploiting children. Lessons have not been learnt from prosecutions of 'grooming gangs' who 'tortured tens of thousands of children' throughout the 1990s and 2000s. Unless dark chapters are re-examined and complicit authorities of the past are punished, this will persist.

The review looked at six local authority areas not previously covered by previous investigations. It found Durham recorded sex between prepubescent girls and men in their twenties as 'consensual'. St Helens labelled children 'promiscuous'. Tower Hamlets described predators as 'boyfriends'. In the aftermath of abuse, help isn't offered. Ten-year-olds plied with narcotics who contract STIs were merely deemed 'at risk'.

There is widespread failure to record perpetrators' ethnicity. 'A misplaced sense of political correctness' was overwhelmingly given as an explanation. Considering Labour's desperate denials of Muslim (particularly Pakistani) over-representation in grooming (ignoring study after study), it's no surprise that five of the six councils criticised are Labour strongholds.

Places notorious for grooming such as Rotherham, Rochdale, Telford, Manchester, Huddersfield, Bradford, Newcastle and Oxford have been staunchly Labour for decades.

The Jay Report found at least 1,400 children were molested in Rotherham between 1997- 2013. In 2006 a Conservative councillor requested a meeting with Roger Stone, the Rotherham Council Labour Leader, at which he expressed his constituents' worries about the widespread grooming of their children. He was told that the matters were being dealt with and asked not to raise the issue publicly. Jayne Senior, a former youth worker, broached the subject but was met with 'indifference and scorn'.

Because perpetrators were predominantly British-Pakistanis, several councillors believed addressing this could 'give oxygen' to racism. There were fears about the BNP which had weaponised the issue, winning two council seats in 2008. Addressing the problem head-on could have allowed Rotherham Labour to steal the Far-Right's Thunder, restoring trust in the mainstream. Instead, council workers remembered 'sweeping it under the carpet,' 'turning a blind eye' and 'keeping a lid on it.' One interviewee recalled, 'the people above just didn't want to know.'

Extreme PC Culture may explain Labour-run council conduct. But did this extend to police, who didn't seriously investigate grooming gangs for over a decade?

Between the ages of 11-16, Cassie Pike was trafficked around England and raped by over 100 men. West Yorkshire Police arrested her, not her abusers. When she was fed with A-class drugs and forced to have sex, police issued her a warning for possession. After getting into a groomer's car, Cassie was arrested for facilitating a child sex crime!

Thames Valley Police looked the other way for 16 years when up to 373 children were abused. They failed to spot a vulnerable girl who vanished from a children's home more than 100 times.

Following the death of Victoria Agogolia, a 15-year-old girl living in a care home run by Manchester City Council, who was injected with heroin by a 50-year-old Asian man, Greater Manchester Police finally took action. Operation Augusta was launched in February 2004 to tackle sexual exploitation of children in the city. The investigation identified at least 57 victims – mainly white girls aged between 12 to 16 and some 97 'persons of interest' across the Greater Manchester region. Intelligence suggests they were predominantly Asian men working in the restaurant industry. But senior officers deprived the Operation of resources, before shutting it down completely in July 2005. It led to seven men being warned, charged or convicted.

Did separate police forces independently come to the same conclusion about handling grooming gangs? Or were they all following the same instructions?

In 2018 Nazir Afzal, North West England's Chief Crown Prosecutor from 2011-2015, told the BBC "In 2008 the Home Office sent a circular to all police forces in the country saying, as far as these young girls who are being exploited in towns and cities, we believe that they have made an informed choice about their sexual behaviour and therefore it's not for you police officers to get involved. That's the landscape coming from the top-down in 2008. Rest assured, all agencies are going to listen to it."

Considering Labour were in power between 1997 and 2010, this circular could be the puzzle's missing piece. It would explain why cover-ups appeared co-ordinated. It would explain why the government received information about the scale of abuse in Rotherham in 2002 but did nothing. It would explain why police didn't orchestrate mass arrests of groomers until Labour left office.

If Afzal's allegation is true, much remains unclear. What record of the circular exists? Was it authored/approved by Home Secretary Jacqui Smith? Was there other communication between government and local bodies? What was the role of Gordon Brown and Tony Blair? How could they not have been involved? These questions require police investigations.

Concealing crimes is arrestable under the Criminal Law Act 1967 'Where a person has committed a relevant offence, any other person who, knowing or believing that the offence has been committed, and that he has information which might be of material assistance in securing the prosecution or conviction of an offender for it, accepts or agrees to accept for not disclosing that information.' It can carry two years imprisonment.

The High Court can issue a Serious Crime Prevention Order, applicable to anyone 'who has conducted himself in a way that was likely to facilitate the commission by himself or another person of a serious offence'. Facilitation here means 'to make easier'. This can require handing over information/documentation to police. Non-compliance can carry five years imprisonment.

It often takes a long time for institutions to change, particularly public sector bureaucracies. Local authorities will continue to fail on grooming gangs unless drastic action is taken to break with the past. Seeing former prime ministers and ministers in handcuffs would reaffirm equality before the law, deliver justice to victims and send a powerful message: Anyone who facilitates child abuse will be held accountable.

Ex-PM Gordon Brown 'Let Rape Gangs Roam Free In Return For Saudi Oil Money'

Former Labour boss Gordon Brown allegedly let Muslim rape gangs roam free in Britain in an alleged deal with the Saudis, it was claimed.

A City of London Finance source claimed that during Gordon Brown's short tenure as Prime Minister he borrowed money from the Saudi's, but the deal had big strings attached.

He urged the dollar-rich Gulf states to prop up ailing national economies through a massive injection of capital into the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and also asked for cash for Britain. In return, he allegedly had to let Muslims "do anything they like."

A source connected to finance in The City said that "In return for the money, the condition they insisted on, was that Muslims in Britain must be free to do anything they like."

"In the light of his subsequent repression of reporting on rape gangs, this information might provide the explanation."

It was reported in 2018 that ex-North West Chief prosecutor alleged that the Home Office ordered police to ignore grooming gang claims in 2008. At the time it was alleged that Home Secretary Jacqui Smith was the source of the email, something which was later disputed.

Nazir Afzal who reversed a Crown Prosecution Service decision and successfully prosecuted the notorious Rochdale rape gang told the BBC in 2018 that in 2008 the Home Office sent a circular email to all police forces calling on them to not investigate the sexual exploitation of young girls in towns and cities across the UK.

He said "You may not know this, but back in 2008 the Home office sent a circular to all police forces in the country saying 'as far as these young girls who are being exploited in towns and cities, we believe they have made an informed choice about their sexual behaviour and therefore it is not for you police officers to get involved in.' "

"This brings a whole new dimension to the case – it was thought that both local police and local councils had failed their duty of care, but if true, Mr Afzal's claims would show that instructions to the police to ignore the claims came from the very top, at the heart of government in Whitehall."

Mr Afzal added in January 2020 that apparently Jacqui Smith had nothing to do with the order and had apologised to her.

It is true that Gordon Brown attempted to persuade dollar-rich Gulf states to prop up ailing national economies through a massive injection of capital into the International Monetary Fund (IMF) - but there is no way of verifying the claim that Brown had cut a deal "to let Muslims do what ever they wanted" as no one will go on record.

It was reported in 2008 that ex-PM Brown spent three hours in one-to-one talks with Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah, trying to persuade the monarch to invest in the IMF.

Brown hoped to persuade Gulf leaders to use some of the estimated $1tn they have made from high oil prices to boost the reserves, indicating that he would like to see the current sum increased by "hundreds of billions" of dollars. The prime minister said following the talks that he was hopeful of having secured Saudi backing.

He told the BBC at the time "I think people want to invest both in helping the world get through this very difficult period of time but I also think people want to work with us so we are less dependent on oil and have more stability in oil prices."

He added "The Saudis will, I think, contribute, so we can have a bigger fund worldwide."