UNITED KINGDOM
Western Morning News
Baroness Butler-Sloss is the right person to lead the inquiry into “revolting” allegations of child abuse and a subsequent cover-up by establishment figures, Nick Clegg has insisted.
The Deputy Prime Minister said he did not know whether there had been a cover-up but the claims were so “heinous” they deserved proper investigation.
Former High Court judge Lady Butler-Sloss, who lives near Exeter, faced calls to step down after reports that her brother Sir Michael Havers tried to prevent ex-MP Geoffrey Dickens airing claims about a diplomat in Parliament in the 1980s.
But on his LBC phone-in show Mr Clegg said complaints about the appointment were “really unfair on her” and added: “I think that the idea that because she had a brother in politics at that stage disqualifies her from doing this work, I don’t accept that and I think it’s right that she has said she is going to carry on doing the job.”
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