Chancellor Rachel Reeves confirms the government will launch a statutory inquiry into grooming gangs after PM Keir Starmer accepted a recommendation from Baroness Louise Casey’s review. Reeves says convictions are at a record high and lessons are being learned to protect victims.
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00:00Since we came to office last year, we have been busy implementing the recommendations of the previous inquiry done by Alexis Jay, which took seven years.
00:09Convictions are now at a record high, and the Prime Minister himself has got a track record in this area,
00:16because when he was Director of Public Prosecutions, he bought the first prosecutions against perpetrators in Rochdale.
00:23The Prime Minister then asked Louise Casey to do a rapid review to establish whether there was anything more that governments could do.
00:31At the beginning of that inquiry, she said she didn't think that there needed to be a national inquiry and that the local inquiries were sufficient.
00:38But during the course of her work, she has come to the conclusion that a national inquiry with statutory powers to sit alongside those local inquiries would be useful.
00:48And the Prime Minister always follows the evidence and has accepted the recommendations of Baroness Casey's review, and that will be published this week.
00:57And the most important thing for victims is that we learn the lessons from these horrific crimes and this horrific abuse,
01:05and that's why we've been busy getting those convictions up and implementing the recommendations of the previous inquiry to ensure that nothing like this ever happens again.