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FIONA WOOLF faced mounting pressure to step down as chair of the government’s historic child abuse inquiry yesterday.
As senior Labour and Liberal Democrat figures voiced doubts about whether Ms Woolf could have the confidence of victims, a photograph surfaced showing her chatting to Lady Brittan, wife of former home secretary Lord Brittan, at a prize-giving last October.
A letter she wrote to Home Secretary Theresa May stated that she had “no social contact with Lord and Lady Brittan since April 23 2013.”
Home Affairs Select Committee chairman Keith Vaz said he would be writing to raise the omission with the City lawyer, who insisted during an evidence session yesterday that she had “gone the extra distance” to produce an exhaustive list of contacts.
Solicitor Alison Millar, who represents a number of abuse victims, said the fact that Ms Woolf had five dinner parties with Lord Brittan — who denies failing to act on a dossier of paedophilia allegations he received while in office in the 1980s — meant victims could not have faith in her.
