Chris Philp says police and councils “deliberately covered up” grooming gang crimes, putting “race relations” ahead of protecting vulnerable girls. The shadow home secretary also claims the prime minister only announced the national inquiry after being “dragged kicking and screaming” by Baroness Casey’s report into child sexual exploitation. Report by Covellm. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00Well, this has come far too late.
00:02Keir Starmer has announced this not because he believes in it or he wants it.
00:05He's done it because he's been forced to.
00:07Forced partly by the Casey report and also by the vote we had scheduled in Parliament on Wednesday to establish this national inquiry.
00:15Keir Starmer has had to be dragged kicking and screaming to do the right thing.
00:19When this first came up in January, Keir Starmer smeared campaigners and people like me as jumping on a, quote, far-right bandwagon.
00:28That was a disgraceful smear and Keir Starmer should frankly apologise.
00:32Well, I think this inquiry has to be time-limited.
00:34It can't last for too long.
00:35I think one or two years is as long as it should last for.
00:38And I think prosecutions should happen in parallel.
00:41Prosecutions of perpetrators who carried out these disgusting crimes, but also prosecutions for those people in positions of authority.
00:48Obviously, senior police officers, local authority leaders who deliberately covered up these crimes only because the perpetrators were mainly of Pakistani heritage.
00:58And these people were more interested in so-called race relations than they were about protecting young girls.
01:03And the individuals in authority who covered this up should be prosecuted, in my view, for misconduct in public office and frankly sent to prison.
01:10And I'd like to see that happen in parallel with this inquiry.