The prime minister has announced there will be a full national statutory inquiry into grooming gangs.
Sir Keir Starmer said he had accepted the recommendations of an audit by Baroness Louise Casey into the data and evidence on the nature and scale of group-based child sexual abuse.
Baroness Casey has recommended a national inquiry is required, he said. The inquiry will cover England and Wales.
For months, Sir Keir has faced criticism for not being willing to set one up.
At the start of the year, the government dismissed calls for a national inquiry, arguing it had already been examined in a seven-year inquiry led by Professor Alexis Jay.
But speaking to reporters on his way to the G7 summit, which begins in Canada tomorrow, the prime minister said: "I've never said we should not look again at any issue."
He added that Baroness Casey had originally thought a new inquiry was not necessary, but she had changed her mind having looked into it in recent months.
"She's come to the view there should be a national inquiry on the basis of what she's seen," Sir Keir said.
"I've read every single word of her report, and I'm going to accept her recommendation.
"I think that's the right thing to do, on the basis of what she has put in her audit.
"I asked her to do that job, to double-check on this.
"She's done that job for me, and having read her report… I shall now implement her recommendation."
He added that it "will take a bit of time" to set up the inquiry, but added that "it will be statutory under the Inquiries Act".
This means the inquiry will be able to compel witnesses to provide evidence., external
A senior government source said the inquiry would "co-ordinate a series of targeted local investigations".
This will include new local investigations, which will take place even if local authorities don't want one.
The local investigations will have the power to compel evidence to be given and witnesses to appear.
Home Secretary Yvette Cooper is expected to make a statement in the Commons on Monday, and Baroness Casey's report will be published alongside this.
Home Secretary Yvette Cooper is expected to make a statement in the Commons on Monday, and Baroness Casey's report will be published alongside this.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c7872pngj2qo
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I didn't think Starmer had the balls, but fair play, he's listened to Baroness Louise Casey's recommendations.
PM announces grooming gang inquiry
posted on 17/6/25
Great! You bought the Japanese into the arguement now they are furious... And you know what they're like at losing face
posted on 17/6/25
comment by TheFactChecker (U23259)
posted 1 minute ago
comment by No Løve (U1282)
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It matters a great deal to the victims who were failed by authorities. Everybody who isn't using this issue as a political football knows this.
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All crime matters to it's victims, not just this one.
Also, nobody said it doesn't matter.
Let's not use that to justify an overreaction when we know that it's actually ethnicity and skin colour that's the driving factor, not the need to save girls.
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Ethnicity and skin colour is the driving factor behind your argument. Getting to the truth is the driving factor behind the inquiry.
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Tory logic.
posted on 17/6/25
comment by No Løve (U1282)
posted 10 seconds ago
comment by TheFactChecker (U23259)
posted 1 minute ago
comment by No Løve (U1282)
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It matters a great deal to the victims who were failed by authorities. Everybody who isn't using this issue as a political football knows this.
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All crime matters to it's victims, not just this one.
Also, nobody said it doesn't matter.
Let's not use that to justify an overreaction when we know that it's actually ethnicity and skin colour that's the driving factor, not the need to save girls.
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Ethnicity and skin colour is the driving factor behind your argument. Getting to the truth is the driving factor behind the inquiry.
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Tory logic.
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Identity fallacies are so 2020 daahling.
posted on 17/6/25
comment by Paul Digby (U1734)
posted 50 seconds ago
comment by No Løve (U1282)
posted 2 minutes ago
comment by Paul Digby (U1734)
posted 3 minutes ago
comment by No Løve (U1282)
posted 2 minutes ago
comment by Paul Digby (U1734)
posted 8 minutes ago
As usual it is an issue that does need addressed but hijacked by the right wing to further their cause. Then causes the left wing to start thinking they need to defend against it.
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Look, perhaps there is an overrepresentation of an ethnicity but how far does it matter if that overrepresentation is responsible for a morsel of the overall body of the crime?
The Tories took the little overrepresentation and blew it up and used it. Thertes too many simpletons, gammons and geniuses that are too stoopid to figure it out.
It's partly why this country is getting worse, and you see self flagellation like Brexit and 14 years of Tory rule.
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Let's look at it in terms of road traffic accidents. Yes there are thousands every week and loads of fatalities. Spread out across the UK. But if there are say 5 serious accidents at one particular junction in a short period of time, these accidents may only make up a tiny percentage of the overall accidents but there appears to be a certain cause behind them that needs to be addressed. Your arguement would be that this accident blackspot does not need to be addressed because the number of accidents here isn't as large as say rear end collisions nationwide. The accident black spot is the cultural attitude amongst these grooming gangs. A problem has been identified that can potentially be fixed.
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Poor analogy.
A better one would be where they start an inquiry into Toyotas because they caused more accidents in Rotherham instead of starting an inquiry on Mazdas which cause 100 times more accidents than Toyotas across the country.
Toyotas Rotherham might have a problem perhaps, but it's basically cherry picking data to hate on Toyotas nationally. It's car racism.
Instead they decide to launch a national inquiry into Toyotas instead of Mazdas.
Genius.
Furthermore, a national inquiry into Toyotas will expose all of Toyotas faults. Such an inquiry is guarantee to confirm the allegation because that's all its meant to do actually.
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The case isn't looking to be racist. Racists are looking to use it to be racist
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But a lot of the support for this and pressure for this comes from the racists and Reform Tommy Robinson koksuckery.
Mostly the same guys that were running around cities across the country attacking people for not being white and looking foreign and trying to burn down hotels during the Farage race riots.
posted on 17/6/25
comment by TheFactChecker (U23259)
posted 2 minutes ago
comment by No Løve (U1282)
posted 10 seconds ago
comment by TheFactChecker (U23259)
posted 1 minute ago
comment by No Løve (U1282)
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It matters a great deal to the victims who were failed by authorities. Everybody who isn't using this issue as a political football knows this.
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All crime matters to it's victims, not just this one.
Also, nobody said it doesn't matter.
Let's not use that to justify an overreaction when we know that it's actually ethnicity and skin colour that's the driving factor, not the need to save girls.
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Ethnicity and skin colour is the driving factor behind your argument. Getting to the truth is the driving factor behind the inquiry.
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Tory logic.
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Identity fallacies are so 2020 daahling.
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More Tory logic. And don't call me darling as I don't roll like that, sorry.
posted on 17/6/25
comment by No Løve (U1282)
posted 5 minutes ago
comment by Paul Digby (U1734)
posted 50 seconds ago
comment by No Løve (U1282)
posted 2 minutes ago
comment by Paul Digby (U1734)
posted 3 minutes ago
comment by No Løve (U1282)
posted 2 minutes ago
comment by Paul Digby (U1734)
posted 8 minutes ago
As usual it is an issue that does need addressed but hijacked by the right wing to further their cause. Then causes the left wing to start thinking they need to defend against it.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Look, perhaps there is an overrepresentation of an ethnicity but how far does it matter if that overrepresentation is responsible for a morsel of the overall body of the crime?
The Tories took the little overrepresentation and blew it up and used it. Thertes too many simpletons, gammons and geniuses that are too stoopid to figure it out.
It's partly why this country is getting worse, and you see self flagellation like Brexit and 14 years of Tory rule.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Let's look at it in terms of road traffic accidents. Yes there are thousands every week and loads of fatalities. Spread out across the UK. But if there are say 5 serious accidents at one particular junction in a short period of time, these accidents may only make up a tiny percentage of the overall accidents but there appears to be a certain cause behind them that needs to be addressed. Your arguement would be that this accident blackspot does not need to be addressed because the number of accidents here isn't as large as say rear end collisions nationwide. The accident black spot is the cultural attitude amongst these grooming gangs. A problem has been identified that can potentially be fixed.
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Poor analogy.
A better one would be where they start an inquiry into Toyotas because they caused more accidents in Rotherham instead of starting an inquiry on Mazdas which cause 100 times more accidents than Toyotas across the country.
Toyotas Rotherham might have a problem perhaps, but it's basically cherry picking data to hate on Toyotas nationally. It's car racism.
Instead they decide to launch a national inquiry into Toyotas instead of Mazdas.
Genius.
Furthermore, a national inquiry into Toyotas will expose all of Toyotas faults. Such an inquiry is guarantee to confirm the allegation because that's all its meant to do actually.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
The case isn't looking to be racist. Racists are looking to use it to be racist
----------------------------------------------------------------------
But a lot of the support for this and pressure for this comes from the racists and Reform Tommy Robinson koksuckery.
Mostly the same guys that were running around cities across the country attacking people for not being white and looking foreign and trying to burn down hotels during the Farage race riots.
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Yup but I'm sure a lot of the support for an investigation into abuse of children in the Catholic church came from Rangers fans. Wanting to use it as a stick to beat Celtic with. That doesn't mean the problem shouldn't be investigated. It's not anti catholic to do so. Unless you believe there wasn't an issue with abuse in the Catholic church because the numbers are statistically insignificant in the grand scheme?
posted on 17/6/25
comment by No Løve (U1282)
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Ethnicity and skin colour is the driving factor behind your argument. Getting to the truth is the driving factor behind the inquiry.
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Tory logic.
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Identity fallacies are so 2020 daahling.
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More Tory logic. And don't call me darling as I don't roll like that, sorry.
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Tory logic didn't result in this inquiry. The victims and campaigners won out in the end after a long war of attrition with people like you kicking this issue around like a ball.
I'd assign you a label for your logic but there is no logic.
posted on 17/6/25
comment by No Løve (U1282)
posted 2 hours, 15 minutes ago
Casey has undertaken her review and is off the opinion that the data from the local inquiries supports a wider national inquiry. They are the facts. And I am all for it.
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So am I so long as it remains committed to the problem of child abuse by all perverts, and doesn't turn into a racial witch-hunt of a group that can only access a tiny percent of overall victims in this country.
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This.
posted on 17/6/25
comment by Paul Digby (U1734)
posted 1 hour, 2 minutes ago
comment by No Løve (U1282)
posted 5 minutes ago
comment by Paul Digby (U1734)
posted 50 seconds ago
comment by No Løve (U1282)
posted 2 minutes ago
comment by Paul Digby (U1734)
posted 3 minutes ago
comment by No Løve (U1282)
posted 2 minutes ago
comment by Paul Digby (U1734)
posted 8 minutes ago
As usual it is an issue that does need addressed but hijacked by the right wing to further their cause. Then causes the left wing to start thinking they need to defend against it.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Look, perhaps there is an overrepresentation of an ethnicity but how far does it matter if that overrepresentation is responsible for a morsel of the overall body of the crime?
The Tories took the little overrepresentation and blew it up and used it. Thertes too many simpletons, gammons and geniuses that are too stoopid to figure it out.
It's partly why this country is getting worse, and you see self flagellation like Brexit and 14 years of Tory rule.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Let's look at it in terms of road traffic accidents. Yes there are thousands every week and loads of fatalities. Spread out across the UK. But if there are say 5 serious accidents at one particular junction in a short period of time, these accidents may only make up a tiny percentage of the overall accidents but there appears to be a certain cause behind them that needs to be addressed. Your arguement would be that this accident blackspot does not need to be addressed because the number of accidents here isn't as large as say rear end collisions nationwide. The accident black spot is the cultural attitude amongst these grooming gangs. A problem has been identified that can potentially be fixed.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Poor analogy.
A better one would be where they start an inquiry into Toyotas because they caused more accidents in Rotherham instead of starting an inquiry on Mazdas which cause 100 times more accidents than Toyotas across the country.
Toyotas Rotherham might have a problem perhaps, but it's basically cherry picking data to hate on Toyotas nationally. It's car racism.
Instead they decide to launch a national inquiry into Toyotas instead of Mazdas.
Genius.
Furthermore, a national inquiry into Toyotas will expose all of Toyotas faults. Such an inquiry is guarantee to confirm the allegation because that's all its meant to do actually.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
The case isn't looking to be racist. Racists are looking to use it to be racist
----------------------------------------------------------------------
But a lot of the support for this and pressure for this comes from the racists and Reform Tommy Robinson koksuckery.
Mostly the same guys that were running around cities across the country attacking people for not being white and looking foreign and trying to burn down hotels during the Farage race riots.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Yup but I'm sure a lot of the support for an investigation into abuse of children in the Catholic church came from Rangers fans. Wanting to use it as a stick to beat Celtic with. That doesn't mean the problem shouldn't be investigated. It's not anti catholic to do so. Unless you believe there wasn't an issue with abuse in the Catholic church because the numbers are statistically insignificant in the grand scheme?
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posted on 17/6/25
I must have been an ugly altar boy.