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Telegraph
Baroness Butler-Sloss should be removed from Westminster abuse inquiry, says former solicitor general
By Alice Philipson 14 Jul 2014
Baroness Butler-Sloss should be removed as the head an inquiry into allegations of child sex abuse at the heart of the establishment, a former solicitor general has said.
Vera Baird, now the Labour police and crime commissioner for Northumbria, said the appointment was “an error” because the former judge’s family connections meant she had a conflict of interest.
Lady Butler-Sloss’s brother Sir Michael Havers, who was attorney general and lord chancellor in the 1980s, is alleged to have tried to prevent ex-MP Geoffrey Dickens airing claims about a diplomat in Parliament.
Pressure mounted at the weekend when she was reported to have told a victim of alleged abuse she did not want to include the allegations in a review of how the Church of England dealt with two paedophile priests because she “cared about the Church” and “the press would love a bishop”.
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