Badenoch: Grooming inquiry is a victory for victims

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Kemi Badenoch says victims are vindicated by the decision to launch a full grooming gangs inquiry. She says the Casey report exposed the need for action and stresses that the law should apply equally to everyone, without influence from race or other factors. 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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00:00I think we knew this all along.

00:02This is what has been said by many people, not least of all myself,

00:06but especially the victims, the survivors of this scandal.

00:10And this is their victory right now.

00:12I want to pay tribute to so many of them who waived their anonymity

00:15and never stopped fighting because they talked about this

00:18and they were dismissed as dog whistling,

00:21jumping on a far-right bandwagon and all sorts of nonsense.

00:23And I'm glad that the Casey Report has now exposed

00:26that we needed a full national inquiry all along.

00:29We cannot live in a society where we treat people differently

00:32because of the colour of their skin

00:34or decide not to invest certain crimes

00:36because of people's religion or ethnicity.

00:38That is not the country we live under.

00:40We should have one law for every single person.

00:43And it is a disgrace that so many children,

00:45because they were children, were allowed to suffer like this

00:47because a lot of people who worked in social security

00:50or in the police or local councils

00:52decided that they didn't want to touch this with a barge pole.

00:55They failed those children.

00:56And all of the inquiries that we've had up until now

00:58have taken too long.

00:59They have made some progress but not gone far enough.

01:02And that is why I'm very pleased

01:03that we're now going to have a full national inquiry.

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