Edward Heath fixed it for Jimmy Savile to receive OBE and attended Paedophile Information Exchange meetings

Heath later appeared on Savile’s BBC TV show Jim’ll Fix It when it was one of the nation’s favourites

Edward Heath backed paedophile Jimmy Savile for a royal honour – two years after the previous Prime Minister warned the Queen against it, reports the Sunday People.

Savile was passed over for an MBE a month before the former Conservative leader moved into No10, the Sunday People can reveal.

But less than two years after Heath took office, the TV presenter – exposed after his death as a serial child-sex abuser – was awarded the HIGHER honour of an OBE.

Heath later appeared on Savile’s BBC TV show Jim’ll Fix It when it was one of the nation’s favourites.