UK announces national inquiry into ‘grooming gangs’ after pressure

Interest successful the contented was pushed by far-right groups and Elon Musk and branded by critics arsenic a racist canine whistle.

The British authorities has announced it volition clasp a nationalist enquiry into organised kid intersexual maltreatment aft months of resisting the call from absorption groups.

Prime Minister Keir Starmer said connected Saturday that helium had work “every azygous word” of an autarkic study into the intersexual battle scandal, besides known arsenic the “grooming gangs” case, by Baroness Louise Casey and would judge her proposal for the investigation.

“That is the close happening to bash connected the ground of what she [Casey] has enactment successful her audit. I asked her to bash that occupation to treble cheque connected this; she has done that occupation for maine and having work her study … I shall present instrumentality her recommendations.” Starmer told reporters travelling with him during a sojourn to Canada.

Earlier this year, the authorities dismissed calls for a nationalist inquiry, stating that it was focusing connected recommendations already made successful a seven-year nationalist enquiry by Professor Alexis Jay.

In 2022, Jay recovered that determination had been organization failings crossed the country, affecting tens of thousands of victims successful England and Wales.

But the absorption Conservative Party leader, Kemi Badenoch, said Starmer lone backs the study due to the fact that “a study told him to”.

But accrued involvement into the “grooming gangs” case, arsenic the British property termed it, was pushed by far-right groups, including Reform UK person Nigel Farage, and further stoked by tech billionaire and Tesla proprietor Elon Musk, aft the perpetrators of 1 of the astir high-profile cases successful the state were men of Pakistani heritage.

Their propulsion was branded by critics arsenic a racist canine whistle. The immense bulk of “grooming gang” offences, however, are carried retired by achromatic men, the UK’s National Police Chiefs’ Council (NPCC) said earlier this year.

Musk utilized his X level to criticise the British premier curate implicit not backing a nationalist enquiry aft the section authorization successful Oldham, a municipality successful bluish England, recovered that girls nether the property of 18 were sexually exploited by groups of men successful the 2000s and 2010s.

Musk besides alleged that Starmer did not bring the perpetrators to justness erstwhile helium was the country’s main authoritative betwixt 2008 and 2013, a complaint that Starmer had denied repeatedly.

Due to the similarity of the Oldham lawsuit to others successful respective towns, including chiefly achromatic girls being abused by men mostly from a Pakistani background, the contented has been linked to immigration.