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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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The prime minister must take charge of the grooming gangs inquiry

We said when Sir Keir Starmer announced a full statutory inquiry into historical crimes committed against girls and women by grooming gangs that it was long overdue. That was four months ago.

Since then, the government has failed to find a chair for the inquiry, while four victims have resigned from the advisory group set up by the inquiry, some of them calling it a “cover-up” and describing it as a “toxic environment”.

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