Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp blames Labour for 'failing to tackle' grooming gangs

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Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp has slammed Sir Keir Starmer after the Prime Minister was forced to make a "humiliating" grooming gangs U-turn.Speaking to GB News, Philp also disputed claims that Labour is now taking more decisive action than the Tories did whilst in power.FULL STORY HERE.

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00:00What's your response to this U-turn from the government that there is now going to be

00:03a full-scale national inquiry?

00:08Good morning. Well, it is a humiliating U-turn for the government. And of course,

00:13the government isn't doing this because they want to or because they believe in it.

00:17They're doing it because they've been forced to. They've been forced partly by the imminent

00:21publication of the Casey report, but they've also been forced by the vote that we had scheduled on

00:27Wednesday of this week to set up a proper independent statutory inquiry. And because

00:33they were scared of that vote, they thought a load of Labour MPs might agree with us,

00:37Conservatives, and vote with us. They've decided in a panic to all of a sudden do this U-turn.

00:42Keir Starmer doesn't believe in this. We know what he really believes in, because back in January,

00:47when this first came out, he smeared, Keir Starmer smeared campaigners and people like me. He called

00:54us far right for calling for an inquiry. That was a disgraceful smear. And now he's just six months

01:01later doing exactly what we asked for. Now, look, this inquiry is really important because

01:06these crimes were deliberately covered up by people in authority over a period of years or decades.

01:13Senior police officers, local council leaders, council social services, the Crown Prosecution

01:19Service, they all deliberately covered up these crimes because the victims were mainly young

01:26white girls from often troubled backgrounds, for example, in care homes, whereas the majority of

01:30perpetrators were of Pakistani heritage. And they were more concerned about so-called community

01:37relations than they were about protecting young girls. That is absolutely disgusting. Not a single

01:42person who did that has been held to account for deliberately covering up these crimes.

01:47There is an offence called misconduct in public office. And I think those people who covered

01:51this up are guilty of that offence. And I would like to see those people who covered up these

01:55crimes prosecuted and sent to prison for what they did.

01:59So that's exactly what they were told.

02:01I would like to try three crimes and railroad擤은 from the

02:04OMANDA.

02:05So I was just about to try to stand to fight by people behind and är at the

02:19honorable being of control at peace in power. And I was just that answered me probably.

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