UNITED KINGDOM
Sky News
A Labour MP has criticised Home Secretary Amber Rudd for not appearing in the Commons to answer an urgent question on the national child sex abuse inquiry.
It was left to Home Office minister Sarah Newton to respond to a series of queries from Lisa Nandy, who accused Prime Minister Theresa May of hiding “behind a smokescreen of independence”.
The inquiry into historical sex abuse allegations is now being led by its fourth chairwoman, Professor Alexis Jay, and a number of senior lawyers have quit recently.
Also, last week a group representing 600 victims of sexual abuse withdrew from the inquiry, branding it an “unpalatable circus”.
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