Sarah Everard inquiry lawyer in running to be Oxford chancellor

The lawyer who ran the inquiry into the police failings that led up to the murder of Sarah Everard has confirmed her candidacy for the role of chancellor of the University of Oxford.
Lady Elish Angiolini is now in the running for the position, which has never been held by a woman in its 800-year history.
It comes after Lord Patten of Barnes retired as chancellor, triggering an election for the post.
Angiolini told The Telegraph she has submitted an application to take over from Patten, who has held the post for more than two decades.
She will reportedly go head to head with Lord Hague of Richmond, the former Conservative leader, Lord Mandelson, the Labour peer who was a minister during Sir Tony Blair’s premiership, and Imran Khan, the former prime minister of Pakistan and cricketer, who is imprisoned in his home country.
Angiolini was appointed principal of St Hugh’s College, Oxford, in 2012 and became a pro-vice-chancellor of the university in 2017.
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She garnered support as a potential chancellor earlier this year when Rory Stewart, the former Conservative MP and podcaster, was rumoured to be in the running for the post.
Sceptical about having a former politician such as Stewart, Oxford dons reportedly argued that Elish would be a breath of fresh air. Stewart confirmed in June that he was not intending to run in any event.
The institution’s governing body has ruled that serving politicians are barred from standing to be the next chancellor.
Angiolini was the first woman to be solicitor-general and then lord advocate of Scotland. She also became the first female lawyer to be appointed to chair the discipline board of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland.
She led the independent inquiry into how Wayne Couzens, a Metropolitan Police officer, was able to abduct, rape and murder Sarah Everard.
The inquiry uncovered evidence of Couzens’s alleged sexual offending including an attempted rape, a kidnapping, indecent exposure, a preference for extreme and violent pornography and unmanaged debts dating back more than 25 years before Everard’s murder.
Angiolini found that Couzens had failed vetting for his first force, Kent police, in 2004 but had then been allowed to join as a special constable in 2006.
She called for an overhaul of vetting across the country, adding: “There is nothing to stop another Wayne Couzens operating in plain sight.”