The new inquiry into Britain’s grooming gangs scandal must answer how so many people could turn a blind eye to the appalling crimes being committed, says a leading campaigner.
Sir Trevor Phillips, ex-chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission, stressed that after Sir Keir Starmer’s U-turn to agree to a new national inquiry it had also to answer how the paedophile abusers felt they could commit their offences without getting caught.