UNITED KINGDOM
The Guardian
James Tapper
Saturday 15 October 2016
Theresa May is set to be called by MPs to explain whether the Home Office covered up allegations about the conduct of the former child sexual abuse inquiry chair, Dame Lowell Goddard.
The home affairs select committee announced that it is considering calling the prime minister after summoning the permanent secretary to the Home Office, Mark Sedwill. This follows the admission on Saturday by his department that it had been aware of concerns about Lowell’s conduct before she resigned on 4 August.
When home secretary Amber Rudd gave evidence to the select committee on 7 September, she told MPs that “all the information” she had was that Lowell had quit because she was “a long way from home” and “too lonely”.
The New Zealander has been accused of using racist language to colleagues at the child abuse inquiry, allegations she has described as “falsities”, “malicious” and part of a “vicious campaign”.
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