Go now! MP demands Alexis Jay QUITS as chair of government’s embattled child sex abuse inquiry as victims withdraw support

UNITED KINGDOM
Daily Mail

By JAMES TAPSFIELD, POLITICAL EDITOR FOR MAILONLINE

Labour MP Chuka Umunna has demanded Professor Alexis Jay stand aside after the biggest victims’ group withdrew their support.

The Shirley Oaks Survivors Association condemned the probe – set up by Theresa May when she was home secretary – for allowing the ‘guilty to wash their dirty hands’.

The latest setback will fuel questions about the future of the inquiry, which has had four different chairs in just two years.

However, Downing Street insisted the Prime Minister still had full confidence in Professor Jay.

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