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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Politics
Rhiannon James and Daniel Keane

Keir Starmer faces massive backlash after ‘far-right bandwagon’ remarks over grooming gang inquiry

A shadow minister on Monday told the Government that it is “not far-right to stand up for victims of mass rape” after Labour defended the decision not to launch a national inquiry into child sexual abuse.

Chris Philp, shadow home secretary, said that “smearing people who raised those issues is exactly how this ended up getting covered up in the first place”.

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