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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Politics
Anahita Hossein-Pour

Claims of grooming probe ‘dilution’ is false, minister says after victims quit

Home Office Minister Jess Phillips (Jonathan Brady/PA) - (PA Wire)

Allegations that a national inquiry into grooming gangs is being diluted or there is intentional delay is “false”, the safeguarding minister has said, after two survivors of child sexual abuse quit their roles in the probe.

Jess Phillips has rejected concerns adding the inquiry will “remain laser focused on grooming gangs” despite the survivors citing heavy criticism at the Home Office’s handing of the issue.

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