Home Office mandarins ‘are seeking to subvert child abuse inquiry

Members of the independent panel that is running the overarching inquiry into child sex abuse are accusing Home Office officials of attempting to subvert it.

Panel members are livid that civil servants in the department arranged for Theresa May, Home Secretary, to consult a ‘non-representative group’ of just two abuse survivors and a pair of campaigners who are known as vehement opponents of the inquiry.

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