London - The former British prime minister, Harold Wilson, may have ordered the police to frame his former ministerial colleague and so-called "spymaster general" George (later Lord) Wigg on a kerb-crawling charge, according to new claims made yesterday. Wigg, once Wilson's closest confidant, fell out with his leader and quit his government for reasons which lawyers, it is said, have forbidden to be disclosed.
Yesterday a former Fleet Street journalist, Chapman Pincher, writing in the Spectator magazine, described the so-far unpublished diaries of Lord Wigg, who died in 1983, as a timebomb. Lord Wigg, who was largely responsible for exposing John Profumo in 1963, was made paymaster-general by Wilson. "But his real job," says Pincher, "was watchdog-in-chief to give early warning of any Labour scandals which the Tories might exploit in revenge."