UNITED KINGDOM
BBC News
Letters from the new head of the child abuse inquiry show her appointment was “chaotic” and raise more questions, a senior MP has said.
A letter from Fiona Woolf to Theresa May was re-written seven times.
Home Affairs Committee chairman Keith Vaz said they gave “a sense of greater detachment” between Mrs Woolf and former Home Secretary Leon Brittan.
Lord Brittan was home secretary in 1984 when ministers were handed a dossier on alleged high-profile paedophiles.
‘Not close’
The inquiry, announced in July, will look at whether public bodies and other institutions did enough to protect children from sexual abuse, from 1970 to the present day.
One chairman has already stepped down amid questions about her impartiality, while Mrs Woolf has also faced questions about her links with Lord Brittan, who has faced questions about how he handled the dossier of allegations when he was home secretary in the 1980s.
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