GB News host Andrew Pierce has taken aim at "yet another" Labour U-turn after Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer called for a statutory national inquiry into grooming gangs.Speaking on Britain's Newsroom, Andrew questioned if the Government "believe in anything", following the announcement.FULL STORY HERE.
00:00Talking, of course, about yet another U-turn by this government, which specialises in U-turns.
00:04We've had winter fuel.
00:05We're going to get a U-turn for sure on lifting the Bentley cap on two-child benefit.
00:10But we had the big U-turn at the weekend on grooming gangs.
00:14So as recently as January, Labour MPs were whipped to vote against a national grooming enquire.
00:20I think the majority was 350.
00:24But Baroness Casey's report is going to be published today.
00:27That was set up by Starmer's government, of course.
00:30To look into grooming gangs, there was a vote due in the Commons on Wednesday on grooming gangs.
00:35Labour were probably going to vote against it.
00:37Saved by the bell, the Casey report comes out in time.
00:40We're now going to have grooming.
00:42Does Starmer's lot believe in anything?
00:46This is all, in my view, because of reform success in May.
00:51And arguably Charlie Peter's success.
00:53And Charlie Peter's done a brilliant job.
00:54Who we're going to be talking to in just a moment.
00:56The thing is, I've always been a little bit torn about this.
00:59Because what I really detest are 10-year enquiries that cost tens, sometimes hundreds of millions of pounds.
01:07When actually, what you really want is for all the bad guys and all the people who've covered up the bad guys to get their collars felt and get banged away.
01:15Well, nobody, of course, so far, nobody has lost their job or been prosecuted for the manifest failure of these young, white, and they were girls.
01:25And so that's the only thing.
01:29And I want criminal investigations.
01:31Well, the enquiry could lead to that.
01:33But, I mean, how long is it going to take?
01:3510 years?
01:35What, they'll all be either dead, some of these old guys that were committing abuse, or they'll be out of their jobs anyway.
01:41And what will it matter?
01:42That's my worry.
01:43And, of course, Baroness Jay did a report into child abuse generally, and there was a section on grooming gangs.
01:50But the critics of the Jay report say there wasn't enough done on grooming gangs.
01:55My understanding about the recommendations now is that the National Crime Agency, the NCD, will be involved.
02:01And they will, by all accounts, they have been doing a very good job with the local enquiries.
02:05But shall we?
02:06The Prime Minister's under pressure, of course.
02:08The Prime Minister's under pressure, of course.
