Labour MP breaks ranks and demands Starmer launches grooming gang inquiry
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Liverpool Walton MP Dan Carden becomes the first Labour MP to demand an inquiry into the Asian grooming gangs who targeted white working class girls. A Labour MP has broken ranks and demanded that Keir Starmer launches a national inquiry into the Asian grooming gangs which targeted hundreds of white working class under-age girls in towns around the country.
Liverpool Walton MP Dan Carden has become the first Labour MP to back an inquiry after a tumultuous week where Sir Keir and his safeguarding minister Jess Phillips were subject to attacks led by X boss Elon Musk over the decision not to have one. Mr Carden told the Liverpool Echo: “The public compassion for the victims, thousands of young British working-class girls and children is real. The public call for justice must be heeded.
“It is shocking that people in positions of power could have covered up and refused to act to avoid confronting racial or cultural issues or because victims were poor and working-class. “We must question and challenge the orthodoxy of progressive liberal multiculturalism that led to authorities failing to act. We need a new doctrine to take our multi-ethnic society into the future.”.
The prime minister has insisted there is no need for a second inquiry and he wants to focus on delivering the 20 recommendations of the one conducted by Alexis Jay into the scandal previously. However, last week ahead of a vote on an inquiry brought by the Tories, Ms Phillips and Downing Street suggested they might agree to an inquiry if victims groups wanted it.
