Chris Philp has demanded an inquiry into the grooming gangs. The shadow home secretary said it is "quite clear a public inquiry is urgently needed and it's wrong that the Labour government have refused to give one."
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00:00Well, I think Elon Rusk was right to raise this issue.
00:03It is shocking that the government, the Labour
00:05government, has refused to hold a public inquiry into the rape
00:09gang scandal when it's now clear that over many, many years,
00:14young girls were brutally raped by gangs of men,
00:17predominantly of Pakistani heritage,
00:20and local police forces didn't investigate properly.
00:23Some local councils deliberately tried
00:25to cover this up to avoid inflaming
00:27what they euphemistically and absurdly called
00:30community tensions.
00:31I mean, just in the last few days,
00:33seen a former Labour MP, Simon Danchuk,
00:35say that he was instructed by the then
00:38chairman of the Labour Party to also cover this up to avoid
00:41losing the Labour Party votes.
00:44It's quite clear a public inquiry is urgently needed,
00:47and it's wrong the Labour government
00:48have refused to give on.