Chris Philp, Shadow Home Secretary
The Labor government has just called on its MPs to vote against a proper national inquiry into the gang-rape scandal.
That disgraceful vote exposed their lack of backbone and anything resembling a moral compass.
The reason this whole harrowing episode went on for so long is because people in power covered it up and swept it under the rug.
Now a Labor government risks doing exactly the same thing.
For years people have said that it is “racist” or “Islamophobic” to point out that the vast majority of evil perpetrators are of British-Pakistani origin.
Starmer continued in that vein earlier this week by smearing as “far right” those who want to defend the victims of these sick gangs and raise this issue.
It was this kind of language that led to all of this being covered up in the first place.
When I pointed this out in Parliament on Monday, many Labor MPs opposite booed me.
The mother of a young girl who took her own life after being groomed and raped said she was “absolutely appalled” by their behavior when she saw the footage.
You can understand why. Girls as young as 11 or 12 have been systematically raped by organized gangs for years.
Some of those in power did nothing — or even actively covered it up.
Young victims have been failed for years by local councils, the police and the Crown Prosecution Service.
We heard from former Rochdale Labor MP Simon Danczuk that he was told by the then chairman of the Parliamentary Labor Party to keep the allegations quiet to avoid losing the Muslim vote.
Labor should hang their heads in shame and apologise. They won’t, of course.
So now we must get to the truth and end the cover-up and conspiracy of silence.
So far, only a small fraction of the 50 cities identified as affected have been investigated.
Jay’s most recent report — the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse — examined only six cities, and there were only a handful of individual city investigations.
Most of the affected towns, such as Keighley, have been left out of the investigation entirely, and the victims and their families are still waiting for the answers they deserve.
Workers argue that local inquiries are the answer. But they won’t cover all affected cities and, in any case, represent marking your own homework.
Even where there are local investigations, they have no legal authority to call witnesses, take evidence under oath or demand evidence.
As recently as last summer, the heads of Manchester’s local inquiry reportedly resigned because public bodies continued to withhold critical information – and Manchester’s local inquiry had no power to compel them to reveal it.
A proper national public inquiry would have the legal power to compel witnesses to attend and give evidence under oath, and to gain access to key documents.
A national public inquiry could be focused and limited to a short period of time.
We don’t want a legal fees fest, we need the truth fast.
It is completely wrong that no person in power has ever been held accountable for the cover-up and gross negligence we have seen.
This is a relevant criminal offense — malfeasance.
I would like those in power found to have covered up these crimes or carelessly ignored them to be prosecuted for misconduct in public service.
Of course, in the meantime, recommendations from previous investigations such as IICSA can be implemented and more perpetrators arrested.
The last government took action, setting up a gang task force that arrested 550 suspects in the first year alone.
I would also like to see the sick perverts responsible kicked out of the UK where they have dual citizenship or the right to citizenship in another country.
If another country doesn’t want to take its citizens back, we can use visa sanctions to force them to change their minds — a power created by the last Conservative government in the Citizenship and Borders Act.
There are thousands of young girls who have suffered unimaginable trauma. The traumas they have to live with, and the justice, truth and responsibility they seek remain elusive.
This is ultimately about the victims and their families. They too have been talking about how they need a proper national investigation in recent days to get to the truth.
What exactly is Labor trying to hide by ignoring the desperate pleas of victims and their families?
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