UNITED KINGDOM
Sky News
The Chair of the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse has insisted its remit can be met, despite criticism from one of her predecessors and a survivors’ group.
Professor Alexis Jay is the fourth person to lead the inquiry after Dame Lowell Goddard quit last month.
It was set up in 2014 amid claims of an establishment cover-up following allegations that a paedophile ring operated in Westminster in the 1980s.
In a memo seen by The Times earlier this week, Dame Lowell said the inquiry was too ambitious, and called for a “complete review”.
The New Zealand High Court judge said there was an “inherent problem” in its “sheer scale and size”.
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