Additional senior clergy in the Church of England may need to follow Justin Welby's example and resign in the wake of a damning report about abuse and coverup in the C of E, according to figures representing both church and state.

The Archbishop of Canterbury, the Most Revd Justin Welby, resigned yesterday, 12 November, in the wake of increasing public anger about the way in which the leader of the Anglican Communion failed to tackle a safeguarding crisis produced by an evangelical layman, John Smyth.