UNITED KINGDOM
Sky News
Theresa May has apologised to victims of historical child sex abuse after losing a second chair of an official inquiry.
The Home Secretary faced MPs to explain how she would proceed after Fiona Woolf resigned on Friday because of her links to Lord Brittan, who is accused of failing to act on abuse allegations while home secretary in the 1980s.
Mrs Woolf’s predecessor, Baroness Butler-Sloss, stood down in similar circumstances in July.
Mrs May said she would meet victims next week before deciding on a new chair – and would establish a liaison group.
She told MPs: “Almost four months after I announced my intention to establish a panel inquiry it is obviously very disappointing that we do not yet have a panel chairman and for that I want to tell survivors that I am sorry.
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