The safeguarding minister instructed Sky’s political editor Beth Rigby on the Electoral Dysfunction podcast she was issuing an “open invitation” to Conservative chief Kemi Badenoch to fulfill victims along with her.
Ms Badenoch’s spokesperson stated she has not met any grooming gang victims after she known as for a brand new nationwide inquiry on Wednesday.
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Ms Phillips stated: “There are grooming gangs in each single a part of our nation.
“I can’t stress this enough. There is nowhere where there is not organised child sexual abuse in our country.
“I’m completely livid. All I will say is, I will begin ringing them when I’ve to go and sit in courtrooms with rape victims. I will begin to see in the event that they wish to come alongside.
“Kemi has an open invitation. Next time I go and pick up a grooming victim, or every Friday afternoon in my office, I allocate two hours for the girls I’ve supported over the years, because they need to be supported for years and years and years afterwards.”
The difficulty of grooming gangs reared its head once more after it emerged final week Ms Phillips had rejected calls from Oldham Council for a authorities inquiry into the scandal within the city. She stated a neighborhood inquiry was extra acceptable.
Elon Musk has used that to repeatedly tweet concerning the scandal, attacking Ms Phillips and Sir Keir Starmer for his or her involvement – which they’ve hit again at.
There have been a number of inquiries into grooming gangs across the nation, together with a nationwide inquiry that took seven years and was printed in 2022.
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Dwelling editor Jason Farrell has spoken to dozens of victims through the years, together with his investigations exposing baby abuse in Telford.
Lots of the victims over the previous week have instructed him they aren’t sure a brand new inquiry would assist as it might take too lengthy.
