Badenoch, who was first to call for a national inquiry into the rape gangs after Oldham’s request was blocked by Jess Phillips, told GB News in a sit-down interview with Charlie Peters that what “most extraordinary about this case is that clearly these people thought that they could get away with it. That is the thing that we should be looking at.” Badenoch also homes in on the “failure of state bodies” like the police and social services…
In addition Kemi says a national inquiry should look into “cultural issues“:
“There are two cultural issues which um I believe have been identified. One is on the perpetrator side – where do these abusers come from, there’s a lot of misinformation, there’s a lot of generalisation. Many innocent people end up being grouped in with them but if you look at it there is a systematic pattern of behavior not even just from one country but from sub-communities within those countries. People with a particular background, particular class background, work background… very very poor, sort of peasant background, very very rural, almost cut off from even the home origin countries that they that they might have been in. They’re not necessarily first generation. The jobs that they were doing taxi drivers jobs which allowed them to exhibit this predatory behaviour.“
Meanwhile Andy Burnham, Rotherham MP Sarah Champion, Liverpool MP Dan Carden, and Rochdale MP Paul Waugh have all backed a national inquiry. Waugh and Champion just days before opposed one. Those emails from constituents must have been coming thick and fast…
Sarah Pochin at Reform Scotland’s manifesto launch event: “I really wanted to come on in a Reform tartan burka, but apparently I wasn’t allowed… One day let’s do one of these events not live-streamed. We’ll do all the naughty stuff…”