Grooming gangs: Councils only ‘persuaded to probe abuse after bad publicity’ as local authorities fear becoming ‘another Rotherham’ – GB News Source Link Excerpt:
UK Parliament Liberals Block National Inquiry Into Migrant Grooming Gangs– americanactionnews.com Source Link Excerpt:
The United Kingdom’s Labour Party blocked a Conservative Party amendment that would have forced a nationwide inquiry into the decades-long epidemic of migrant grooming gangs.
The Conservatives proposed an amendment to the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill that would compel the government to launch a national investigation into the grooming gangs that have terrorized the nation for decades, according the House of Commons records. The amendment was voted down by 364 to 111, with Labour and Conservatives voting down party lines.
“Bang on from Kemi Badenoch – Starmer’s argument against an inquiry is that government can’t do two things at once – it can’t implement previous actions and have an inquiry at the same time – that’s just obviously nonsense,” Niel O’Brien, Conservative party MP, said on X.
PMQs: Keir Starmer claims new inquiry would delay action on child grooming gangs until 2031 – UK politics live | Politics– www.theguardian.com Source Link Excerpt:
Starmer claims new inquiry will delay action on grooming gangs until 2031
Badenoch says this is not about Starmer. It is about the victims. “Be a leader, not a lawyer.”
She says the Labour party has adopted the APPG definition of Islamophobia. That says talking about grooming gangs can be Islamophobic. So will Labour consider it support for this?
Starmer says he will call out anything stopping people coming forward.
U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer hits back at Elon Musk and the “poison of the far right”– www.cbsnews.com Source Link Excerpt:
Britain’s Prime Minister Keir Starmer hit back at Elon Musk on Monday after the world’s richest man repeatedly lobbed a host of inflammatory allegations at the country’s leader over his government’s record on a long-running national child grooming scandal.
Musk has accused the United Kingdom leader of being “complicit in the rape of Britain” on his X platform and has repeatedly elevated claims without evidence that Starmer knowingly refused to prosecute child groomers when he was the country’s top lawyer.
EPSOM, ENGLAND – JANUARY 06: U.K. Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer answers questions from the media. The prime minister defended his record after tech billionaire Elon Musk made several allegations about the U.K. government’s handling of historic child sex abuses in the country.
