UNITED KINGDOM
Independent
Rob Merrick Deputy Political Editor @Rob_Merrick
The child sex abuse inquiry descended into further chaos today when a senior MP called for its fourth chairwoman to be sacked.
Labour’s Chuka Umunna spoke out after the largest victims’ group, representing 600 victims who lived in London children’s homes, quit the inquiry – calling it an “unpalatable circus”.
The Shirley Oaks Survivors Association said its members had voted “overwhelmingly” to pull out, warning it had no confidence in Alexis Jay, its fourth leader.
Many of the group’s abuse victims live in the South London constituency of Mr Umunna, a member of the Commons Home Affairs Select Committee, which recently quizzed Professor Jay.
Today, the Labour MP told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme that only the leadership of a judge, at High Court level or above, could rescue the inquiry.
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