UNITED KINGDOM
BBC News
The independent inquiry into child sex abuse will continue, but there will be an internal review of it, its new chairwoman Alexis Jay has said.
It comes after ex-chairwoman Dame Lowell Goddard said in a memo to MPs that the inquiry was too big and needed overhauling.
Ex-top prosecutor Lord Macdonald said there was a “real danger” of it “taking years to confirm what we already know”.
But Prime Minister Theresa May said she remained “committed” to the inquiry.
Last month, Dame Lowell became the third chief to quit the inquiry – which was set up to investigate allegations made against local authorities, religious organisations, the armed forces and public and private institutions in England and Wales, as well as people in the public eye – since it was launched in 2014.
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