UNITED KINGDOM
London Evening Standard
JOE MURPHY, POLITICAL EDITOR
Published: 17 July 2014
A majority of Britons lack confidence that the new inquiries into child abuse will ever get to the truth, an exclusive poll reveals today.
Research by Ipsos MORI found that 56 per cent doubt they will learn what happened from a new overarching inquiry and a separate probe into missing files.
A huge majority — 87 per cent — think child abuse was covered up in the Seventies and Eighties. Some 62 per cent “strongly” believe this.
Half the public think establishment figures would attempt a cover-up if such scandals were to happen again today.
Two probes were announced last week, including an overarching inquiry into the failure to properly investigate alleged paedophile rings in politics, the BBC and health services. The Prime Minister vowed to leave “no stone unturned” in the hunt for facts.
Today’s poll reveals many people distrust the “establishment”, past and present, to let the truth come out.
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