article_snippet: The secrecy row will also focus attention on Cabinet Secretary Sir Jeremy Heywood, who has become known as ‘Sir Cover-Up’ after blocking the release of dozens of messages exchanged by Tony Blair and George W Bush ahead of the Iraq war.
article_snippet: Following The Mail on Sunday’s victory, The Mail can be revealed for the first time that: .
article_snippet: A senior Whitehall mandarin took the ‘exceptional’ step of contacting the country’s top prosecutor and police to find out why Cyril Smith's was never charged with abusing boys at a hostel Cyril Smith's helped run.
article_snippet: One insider told The Mail on Sunday that the matter is ‘on the Deputy Prime Minister’s desk’.
article_snippet: this involves Nick Clegg and David Cameron people and we should not have to learn about this piecemeal because of journalists pestering for information.
article_snippet: Both men need to come clean and make a personal commitment to revealing everything that is now held by Government departments.
article_snippet: But the Cabinet Office seems to be doing the opposite. '
article_snippet: Nick Clegg, who sits in this department, has already written to me refusing to carry out an investigation into who knew what about Cyril Smith in Cyril Smith party and it’s disappointing to see the Cabinet Office continuing this unhelpful approach.
article_snippet: Now The Mail on Sunday has finally been given unprecedented access to the Downing Street files on the case.
article_snippet: The secrecy row will also focus attention on Cabinet Secretary Sir Jeremy Heywood (pictured)
article_snippet: the Cabinet Office said: ‘We have released almost all of the information held about this matter.