A 67-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of historic child abuse following an investigation into claims of a paedophile ring with links to parliament.
The unnamed suspect was arrested at an address in Dorset yesterday morning and was questioned at a local police station, a spokesman for Scotland Yard said.
He was later released on bail until a date in November as detectives continue their investigation.
He is being investigated as part of an inquiry named Operation Brancaster which was sparked by MP Tom Watson.
In 2012 he used Prime Minister's Questions to claim that a file of evidence used to convict a man called Peter Righton of importing child pornography in 1992 contained "clear intelligence" of a sex abuse gang.
He also claimed that a member of the group had bragged about links with a senior aide to a former Prime Minister.
Mr Watson wrote to Scotland Yard about the case, and the force later launched a number of separate criminal investigations after assessing the information.
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