UNITED KINGDOM
BBC News
Laura Kuenssberg
Political editor
Often the simplest questions are the hardest to answer.
As we reported yesterday, the troubles of the inquiry into historical child abuse continue to unravel.
But the departure of the inquiry head, Dame Lowell Goddard, potentially could cause the prime minister herself a significant political headache.
During Prime Minister’s Questions today Theresa May was asked the question – what did she know, and when, about the problems at the inquiry? The prime minister’s answer implied that she had known something was up.
She said: “There were stories around about the inquiry and about individuals related to the inquiry but the home secretary cannot intervene on the basis of suspicion, rumour or hearsay.”
A conversation in April involving a Home Office official “was asked to be confidential and as far I am aware it was treated as such”, she said.
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