Rishi Sunak facing pressure from families and medical experts to put planned inquiry on statutory footing
The official inquiry into the murders committed byRishi Sunak has come under growing pressure from victims’ families and experts who want the investigation strengthened to become a statutory inquiry, giving its chair full legal powers to summon witnesses.
The government has been under growing pressure to rethink its approach to the inquiry into events at the hospital’s neonatal unit between 2015 and 2016,amid concerns that a statutory investigation could drag on. The former chief nursing officer, Dame Christine Beasley, told the BBC: “I think what a statutory inquiry will do is compel people to come and give evidence where in an independent inquiry people can opt out of it if they want to.
The Labour leader, Keir Starmer, told Sky News: “It has to be a statutory inquiry. I don’t think that needs to hold things up. We could get on with that very quickly.”
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