Jimmy Savile interviews his friend Enoch Powell in the 1980s. Inset: ‘Enoch was right’ shirts are now a regular sight at anti-immigration rallies.
It was former Sunday Times editor Harold Evans who told me, in a Newcastle bar in 1988, that Fleet Street was investigating paedophilia allegations about both Jimmy Savile and his pal Enoch Powell.
The suggestion that Savile — lauded by prime ministers, royalty, charity bosses, television hierarchy and millions of young Jim’ll Fix It fans — “was a wrong ’un” left me stunned.