Charlie Peters: Why three council votes on grooming gangs signal trouble for Starmer - analysis
One week after Yvette Cooper called for local inquiries, Bradford said no thanks
âBad publicity.â That was Alexis Jayâs answer when asked by Tory MP Robbie Moore what it takes to force local authorities to commission inquiries into grooming gang scandals.
Prof. Jay â who authored the independent inquiry into child sexual abuse, published in 2022 â was taking questions from the Home Affairs Select Committee a week after the government buckled under pressure on the abuse gangs to announce new measures.
Beyond a three-month ârapid auditâ of nationwide child sexual exploitation data, Home Secretary Yvette Cooper also announced that the government would provide funding for five new local inquiries. Oldham will be one of the locations but the other four areas have yet to be announced.
Some survivors of the abuse gangs told me that they felt they were playing âinquiry lotteryâ, hoping that their area might get picked by the government for an inquiry. A GB News investigation found over 50 different towns and cities affected by the gangs, so why wonât there be a thorough review into all every area facing this crisis?
Jayâs response and three votes across the country show why this position canât hold.
On Tuesday night, Labour councillors in Bradford blocked a motion for an independent inquiry into the districtâs rape gangs.
The motion, which was brought forward by the Conservative Group for Bradford Council, demanded a full, independent government-led inquiry into grooming gangs and child sexual exploitation in the Bradford district.
Hours before the vote, Jay told Robbie Moore that authorities had dodged inquiries over fears of exposure, adding: âThey donât want to be the next Rotherham⌠there will be a kind of collusion not to commission such reports.â
Rotherham Council only commissioned their own local review in 2014 because of âbad publicity,â when the Times newspaper would not leave them alone.
Charlie Peters discussing the grooming gangs scandal with Kemi BadenochGB NEWSThe same persistence from the Sunday Mirror sparked a local inquiry into Telford.
These reviews found thousands of victims, evidence of cover-ups, and authorities neglecting to investigate predominantly Pakistani perpetrators for fears it could affect community cohesion.
So Yvette Cooperâs Home Office say they will support local inquiries, but the first time a Labour-run council has a chance to call for one, they say no thank you.
Itâs hardly surprising. Bradford, according to highly respected solicitor David Greenwood, would âdwarf Rotherhamâ, if an inquiry ever inspected it. The horrors it would uncover would slaughter more than a handful of political careers and reputations. Turkeys donât vote for Christmas.
But it isnât just Labour authorities rejecting local inquiries, other Red-run councils have this week backed demands for independent national investigations, breaking with the governmentâs stance.
Wigan Council, in the Greater Manchester area, and Stockton Council in Teesside both passed motions that will see them writing to the government to request national inquiries into the abuse gangs.
I expect more Labour authorities will come out to back a national inquiry, as was rejected by red rosette parliamentarians at the start of the month.
With all of this pressure, the governmentâs stance will struggle to hold. Thereâs no point in backing local investigations if none of their colleagues want them.
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