UNITED KINGDOM
Telegraph

By Cristina Odone

Theresa May has called for a wide-ranging inquiry into historic paedophile abuse by politicians. Only ten days ago the Home Secretary had refused to even contemplate such an inquiry – but that was before the public mood turned ugly, and demands for truth and transparency grew loud. Faced with such hostility, the normally cool Mrs May lost her nerve.

Three developments in the long, long-running “elite paedophile ring” saga account for the public’s change of heart. Rolf Harris got a sentence of only five years and nine months; Lord Brittan changed his story twice about what he did with the dossier of evidence of a Westminster paedophile gang; and more details emerged surrounding the late Cyril Smith MP’s child abuse.

Newsnight interviewed last night the whistleblower who had first come out with the allegations against paedophiles who abused their power to prey on…