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By John Sparks

Updated on 30 November 2008

Tory immigration spokesman, Damian Green, accused of targeting Home Office official as cross-party fury grows.

The home secretary insists that Green's arrest was part of a police investigation into a systematic series of leaks of government information.

The leader of the Commons, Harriet Harman, today called for a review into the decision to allow officers to search Mr Green's Westminster office.

And Channel 4 News has learned that the MP was being accused of what police described as "grooming" a Home Office official, to pass him government documents.

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