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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Politics
Nicholas Cecil

'How could so many people turn a blind eye?': The question UK must answer after grooming gangs inquiry U-turn

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.

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