Graham Barnfield
Keir Starmer’s Labour government is under fire for its refusal to set up a national inquiry into the phenomenon of so-called grooming gangs—organised rapists operating across multiple British towns.
Tesla and X CEO Elon Musk has amplified the row, claiming Jess Phillips MP “deserves to be in prison” over the “disgraceful” decision. Correspondence shows Phillips, the Home Office’s parliamentary under-secretary of state for safeguarding—who is responsible for addressing violence against women and girls—rejected calls for a government investigation into ‘historic’ sex abuse in Oldham, Greater Manchester, that would have the power to compel witnesses to testify.
Instead, Phillips has stated that the decision to conduct such an inquiry should remain the sole responsibility of the municipal authority requesting it. In effect, by trying to keep it local, Labour is blocking a public reckoning with Starmer’s role as the head of the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) during its investigation of the Oldham child grooming scandal.
To an already angry electorate, this is no mere administrative technicality. At least as far back as 2012, when Starmer was the director of public prosecutions (DPP) running the CPS, whistleblowers claimed they were told that no action should be taken because of the ethnic origin of the alleged perpetrators, in the name of ‘maintaining good community relations.’ This echoes similar events in other towns, including Rochdale, Rotherham and Telford.
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