UNITED KINGDOM
Mirror
Oct 31, 2014 By Jack Blanchard
Home Secretary May’s first two choices of chairwoman have been forced to quit over links to establishment figures at the time of the alleged cover-up
Furious victims’ groups tonight rounded on Theresa May after Fiona Woolf’s resignation left the Westminster child sex abuse inquiry stalled once again.
The bungling Tory Home Secretary’s second choice of chairwoman quit over her links to Lord Brittan, a key figure in the probe into an alleged establishment cover-up.
Mrs Woolf’s decision following days of pressure is a personal disaster for Mrs May after her first choice of leader, Dame Butler-Sloss, resigned in July because her brother was Attorney General at the time of the sex scandal claims in the 80s.
And in another embarrassing move, both David Cameron and George Osborne were today still backing Mrs Woolf, just hours before she quit.
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