Victims of abuse in North still waiting for justice

Opinion: Questions may arise about Hague’s judgment in accepting advice not to publish Welsh report

Eamonn McCann

The Kincora boys’ home in Belfast

The Kincora boys’ home in Belfast

The resignation on Monday of William Hague as British foreign secretary pushed a number of other stories – the resignation of Lady Butler-Sloss from the inquiry into historical child sex abuse among them – down the news agenda.

Hague intends to serve out the remaining nine months of this parliament as leader of the house and then to retire. He says that he is tired of foreign travel and wants to spend more time with his family. His decision came as a shock at Westminster. He had not been named among the “old lags” rumoured for weeks to be about to be put out to grass to make way for a frisky element assumed to be more attractive to trendier Tory voters, if any. We shall see. At 53, Hague is hardly an old lag anyway. The other senior minister to resign of his own accord was Kenneth Clarke, 74.

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