In an interview with the programme, Lord Birkett, who was in line to become the BBFC's President, said Home Secreray Jack Straw was outraged at the moves:

"He said, do you really mean that you are going to allow oral sex and buggery and I don't know what else? That you are actually passing this, you are giving a certificate to it?"

Mr Straw dismissed the argument that liberalisation would help decrease the use of more violent pornography.

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