Shortly after Mr Smith's demotion Peter Tatchell, a prominent campaigner on gay and lesbian issues, described the trust's actions as "excessive".

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Simon Hughes won the seat of Southwark for the Liberal Party in a notoriously bitter 1983 by-election, against Labour's Peter Tatchell.

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Activist Peter Tatchell, who helped organise the demonstration, claimed the pontiff ordered a cover-up in a 2001 edict to Catholic Bishops worldwide.

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