Scroll down for video Whistleblower said senior civil servant Clifford Hindley (pictured), who was head of the Home Office's voluntary services unit, signed off a three year grant for £35,000 in 1980 A vile paedophile group with links to senior Labour politicians was funded with huge amounts of taxpayers' money, it has emerged. The Paedophile Information Exchange was allegedly given £70,000 by the Home Office between 1977 and 1980 - the equivalent today of about £400,000. The astonishing claims made by a whistleblower are now being investigated by the police and the government. They come after the Mail exposed shocking links between the paedophile group and the National Council for Civil Liberties, a pressure group run at the time by former Health Secretary Patricia Hewitt and Labour's deputy leader Harriet Harman.
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Police are investigating the claims made by a whistleblower
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Callaghan and Thatcher governments may have provided funding
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Claims come after links between the group and NCCL are exposed
Miss Harman, who was the NCCL's legal officer, has also expressed 'regret' but has refused to apologise, claiming the @placeholder's stories were a 'politically-motivated smear campaign'.