The beginning of a friendship between Margaret Thatcher and Jimmy Savile is recorded in a florid letter written by the disc jockey and signed with three kisses.
The entertainer, who since his death last year has been accused of being a serial child abuser, wrote to the Prime Minister after they met at Downing Street in February 1980.
“Dear Prime Minister,” Savile wrote on notepaper featuring his face and information about a sponsored run. “I waited a week before writing to thank you for my lunch invitation because I had such a superb time I didn’t want to be too effusive.
“My girl patients pretended to be madly jealous and wanted to know what you wore and what you ate. All the paralysed lads called