in december 2018, eight months after the trial collapsed, alun cairns endorsed ross england as a candidateelsh assembly. the following year, mr cairns claimed he didn't know what mr england had done. but bbc wales obtained an e—mail address to mr cairns discussing the very case. that had been sent back in august 2018. as a result, mr cairns stepped down as welsh secretary. despite resigning from the cabinet, alun cairns went on to increase his majority in the vale of glamorgan in the general election. 0n the 20th of december, eight days after the election, a ministerial investigation concluded that alun cairns had not breached the ministerial code but did state it was unlikely that mr cairns would not have been told something about ross england's role in the collapse of the trial. the whole thing feels like a sham. what kind of investigation doesn't contact the person who is most affected? it makes me question how seriously it was carried out. this was a deflection until after the general election, not a genuine investigation into alun‘s truthfulness. i would have hoped that alun would hav

a ministerial investigation eight days after the election concluded there was no evidence alun cairnsikely that mr cairns would not have been told something about ross england's role in the collapse of the trial. the victim, who we're calling lucy, worked for alan cairns when she was attacked. the whole thing feels like a sham. what kind of investigation doesn't contact the person who is most affected? it makes me question how seriously it was actually carried out. this was not a genuine investigation into alun‘s truthfulness. it's understood the cabinet office did not feel it was necessary or appropriate to contact lucy. lucy also claims that members of the welsh conservative party made her feel like she was the one being put on trial. the only way that i can describe it is a campaign of hatred towards me that i'd had the gall to tell the police what happened and why would i notjust let it go. between that and the trials my life has made absolutely miserable. was made absolutely miserable. it felt like a complete smear campaign, basically trying to spread about that i'd slept with ce

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a sham, that's what a rape victim told us about the investigation into alun cairns. knew about the sabotage of the rape trial by his former aide. lucy told us exclusively she hadn't even been contacted to contribute to the inquiry. the whole thing feels like a sham. what kind of investigation doesn't contact the person most affected? it makes me question how seriously it was actually carried out. the full story at ten, plus what do you think of harry and meghan's decision to break free from the royal family? effectively quit public life and live both in canada and here? join us live both in canada and here? join us at ten on bbc news, bbc news channel and online. and let's take a look at the weather forecast with carol. thank you, good morning. today we started with some rain, some blustery winds and some hill snow, courtesy of this system here. it will continue to push northwards and eastwards, eventually clearing, only to be replaced by another area of low pressure in the southern counties later in the day. as well as rain, we will also have some strengthening wind