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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Politics
Nick Lester

Televise grooming gang inquiry given public interest, Labour peer urges

The full-scale investigation was announced by the Prime Minister following a major review by Baroness Casey into grooming gangs (PA) - (PA Archive)

A nationwide inquiry into child grooming gangs should be televised given the public interest, a former top Labour aide has urged the Government.

Broadcaster Baroness Hazarika, who was previously a political adviser to former prime minister Gordon Brown, Baroness Harman and Energy Secretary Ed Miliband, also called for a two-year time limit on the probe, arguing that “justice delayed is justice denied”.

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