Posted on 06/14/2025 7:42:34 PM PDT by RandFan
The prime minister has announced there will be a full national statutory inquiry into grooming gangs.
Sir Keir Starmer said he had accepted the recommendations of an audit by Baroness Louise Casey into the data and evidence on the nature and scale of group-based child sexual abuse.
Baroness Casey has recommended a national inquiry is required, he said. The inquiry will cover England and Wales.
For months, Sir Keir has faced criticism for not being willing to set one up.
At the start of the year, the government dismissed calls for a national inquiry, arguing it had already been examined in a seven-year inquiry led by Professor Alexis Jay.
But speaking to reporters on his way to the G7 summit, which begins in Canada tomorrow, the prime minister said: "I've never said we should not look again at any issue."
He added that Baroness Casey had originally thought a new inquiry was not necessary, but she had changed her mind having looked into it in recent months.
"She's come to the view there should be a national inquiry on the basis of what she's seen," Sir Keir said.
"I've read every single word of her report, and I'm going to accept her recommendation.
"I think that's the right thing to do, on the basis of what she has put in her audit.
"I asked her to do that job, to double-check on this.
"She's done that job for me, and having read her report… I shall now implement her recommendation."
He added that it "will take a bit of time" to set up the inquiry, but added that "it will be statutory under the Inquiries Act".
This means the inquiry will be able to compel witnesses to provide evidence.
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Too late...
Hmm. I guess that means he’s going to take to the lanes and fields to go gather all those horse that already left the barn.
Probably just a PR stunt. Nothing effective will be done about the moose limbs. Grooming will continue. Penalties will be applied for dating to demand action. This is Britain, after all. The land of speech suppression.
Feeling the pressure.
Kind of too little and too late.
You have already shown us what you are made of.
Just so.
Pfffft.
When I lived there I can remember during Blair the banging on about “institutional racism”.
It was all so contrived.
Guy will slow walk the investigation, and just as with the Jimmy Savile/BBC case, he will find that “We have investigated ourselves and found no wrongdoing among those currently employed by the government.”
20 years later
I predict A WHITEWASHING!
INB4 Either: “We investigated and didn’t find any” or “We investigated and found 2 white guys from Leicester, and killed them”.
Something to that effect.
ISLAM.
About damn time.
Kinda late now. The UK government allowed the savages to rape girls and imprisoned people who blew the whistle on it.
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