US EditionKemi Badenoch presses Government to accelerate grooming inquiry progress
Kemi Badenoch aims to accelerate a statutory inquiry with powers to compel evidence, focusing on ethnicity and religion of offenders amid stalled government progress.
- On Monday, Kemi Badenoch will press the Government to speed up a national grooming-gangs inquiry and unveil Conservative draft terms drawn up with victims focusing on religion and ethnicity.
- After the June announcement, the inquiry suffered October setbacks when the final two chair candidates withdrew amid controversy, victim liaison panel members resigned, and Baroness Louise Casey was brought in to assist.
- Conservative draft proposes examining alleged religious and ethnic traits among offenders and would make the inquiry fully independent with powers to compel evidence, while Fiona Goddard, grooming-gangs survivor and former liaison-panel member, backed the proposals, saying she lost faith in the Government's progress.
- Officials from both parties now trade accusations as the Conservative Party accuses Labour of 'dragging its feet' while the Labour Government says it accepted Baroness Louise Casey's recommendations and is `determined to deliver justice` for victims and survivors.
- Proponents say the inquiry should follow evidence to councils, police forces and the CPS, while critics demand the Prime Minister launch a fresh judge-led inquiry amid concerns of long cover-ups in England and Wales.
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Grooming Gangs Inquiry Must ‘Leave No Stone Unturned’, Kemi Badenoch Says
A nationwide inquiry into grooming gangs must “leave no stone unturned”, Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch has insisted, as she also called on the Government to do more to support victims and their families. Shadow home secretary Chris Philp meanwhile urged the Government to adopt draft terms of reference for the inquiry drawn up by the Conservatives with help from some victims and survivors of abuse. The Tories’ terms would ensure the inv…
New Conservative proposals for UK grooming gangs inquiry
The Conservatives have said that the nationwide grooming gangs inquiry should be limited to two years and examine the ethnicity and religious background of offenders. The establishment of a national inquiry has been dogged by rows about its scope and who should chair it, with a group of women quitting its victim liaison panel. One of those survivors was with Tory leader Kemi Badenoch at her press conference on Monday. A warning, this report cont…
Grooming gangs inquiry must 'leave no stone unturned', Kemi Badenoch tells government
A nationwide grooming gangs inquiry must "leave no stone unturned", Kemi Badenoch has said as the Conservatives urged the government to ensure ethnicity and religious background are taken into account.
Kemi Badenoch questioned over the Tories’ record on grooming gangs at ‘alternative inquiry’ launch
Kemi Badenoch was quizzed over the previous Tory government’s record on grooming gangs at a press conference today. This morning, Badenoch laid out proposals for a new “alternative grooming gang inquiry”, including draft terms of reference focusing on the ethnicity and religion of perpetrators. In her speech, the Tory leader said that the government’s national inquiry should leave “no stone unturned”. But Sky News journalist Jason Farrell pointe…
Why Kemi is safer than Keir
This morning Kemi Badenoch has staged a presser setting out the terms for a new (alternative) national grooming gangs inquiry – a move that has reopened wounds for many survivors and intensified criticism of Labour’s handling of the existing process. What will this mean for the government, for survivors, and for the political fight ahead?
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