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Melanie McDonagh

OPINION - Emily Maitlis, Jess Phillips, Lucy Powell and the liberal elite have been embarrassed over grooming gangs

Home Office minister Jess Phillips said she expected local inquiries into grooming gangs would ‘go further’ than the five already announced - (PA Wire)

Well, it’s hats off to Elon Musk then, isn’t it? What are the chances that the PM would actually have commissioned and now agreed to Dame Louise Casey’s report recommending a proper national inquiry into the mass rape of white girls – some as young as 12 – by men of Pakistani/Bangladeshi heritage if it hadn’t been for Elon having the bad taste to raise the issue?

When Elon did put it on the radar, the PM condemned people who spread “lies and misinformation”. Doesn’t look like misinformation now, and it didn’t then either. I know memories are short, but are they so short that we’ve forgotten that back in January, when the Tories tabled an amendment to the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools bill to secure a national investigation, there was not one Labour MP – not one – who voted in favour?

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