Mary Whitehouse was right about morality, says barrister who fought against her

Mary Whitehouse was right to pursue her campaign against obscenity, one of her former opponents has said.

Jeremy Hutchinson - the barrister who argued the defence’s case in Whitehouse’s private prosecution against the play The Romans in Britain for indecency - commented to The Times that the socially conservative campaigner has been proved right about her fears of "moral loosening" in the UK.

Referring to the rise of social media, Lord Hutchinson, 101, told The Times: “It was a personally reasonable view that perhaps morals have become a bit too loose with exposure to pornography and violence and computer games. I think in many areas they probably have, but the genie is out of the bottle.”