Keir Starmer has been named a core participant in the national grooming gangs inquiry he resisted setting up for months, GB News reports. The former Prime Minister is expected to give evidence during the inquiry’s National Accountability Hearings in London in December and January. Further hearings follow in March and April…
The hearings will look at why previous probes failed to produce “meaningful change”, and will make institutions explain what they did to protect children. Whistleblowers Maggie Oliver and Jayne Senior are also core participants, alongside the MoJ, DfE, DfT, the Welsh Government and the Local Government Association. Labour peer Anne Longfield is leading the £65 million three-year inquiry – with powers to compel witnesses. Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp has already written to Longfield arguing that Starmer should be held to account for his time as Director of Public Prosecutions:
“Keir Starmer has claimed these catastrophic charging decisions as his, so he must answer for them – under oath.”
Manchester City Council is on the summons list too…
Robert Jenrick on the Today programme:
“Can you now give a guarantee to your listeners this morning that no BBC presenter in the future will be exposed as a paedophile, as a number have been in the recent past? No, of course you can’t…”