Peter Parker

The establishment was always covering up for Bob Boothby

Along with his 30-year affair with Dorothy Macmillan, the Tory minister’s penchant for the criminal underworld also needed to be buried

Robert Boothby and Ronnie Kray ‘talking business’ in June 1969. Credit: Getty Images 
issue 30 May 2020
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  • The Peer and the Gangster: A Very British Cover-up

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    History Press, pp. 256, £20

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