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Can you 'take the politics out' of the grooming gangs scandal?

Coffee House Shots

The Spectator

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🗓️ 17 June 2025

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

Yesterday Yvette Cooper announced a national inquiry into the grooming gangs scandal after the Casey Review found that a disproportionate number of Asian men were responsible and that governments and authorities had failed to step in over fears of racism. Anxious to press Labour on their U-turn – memorably, Starmer accused the Tories of ‘jumping on the far-right bandwagon’ – Kemi Badenoch held a press conference, joined by victims of the gangs. ‘I’m not doing politics now, when I’m in the Houses of Parliament, when I’m in the Commons, I will do politics’, she said. But can you really take the politics out of the grooming gangs scandal?


Elsewhere, Donald Trump has fled the G7. Although this isn’t the first time he has cut a G7 visit short, it does mean he snubbed meetings with Zelensky and the Mexican president. Have Labour got what they wanted out of the conference? And what should we read into Trump’s early exit?


Lucy Dunn speaks to Tim Shipman and James Heale.


Produced by Oscar Edmondson.

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joined by James Hill and Tim Shipman. Yesterday, Home Secretary Yvette Cooper spoke in the

0:51.9

Commons after the publication of Baroness Casey's

0:54.3

review into Britain's grooming gang scandal. The report's finding showed that a disproportionate

0:59.6

number of Asian men had been responsible for the grooming gangs and successive governments

1:03.1

and authorities failed to step in due to fears of racism. This morning, the Tory leader, Kimi Badenoch,

1:08.2

held a press conference discussing the review. And James, you're watching this. Can you tell us a bit about what you made of all? where the Tories table an amendment to the Children and Welfare Bill, Labour and peace had to go through the, much with the lobbies and vote that down.

1:29.5

And now, obviously, five months on, six months on, we've now seen Labour call for an inquiry off the back of the Creasy review.

1:37.3

So this was very much her, with those of survivors, talking about it and setting out what they want to see in terms of inquiry.

1:43.3

It was very much sort of letting

1:45.0

those people who have been affected by the grooming gangs have the space to own the moment

1:49.5

and talk about it. So it was quite a sobering press conference, one of which it was much

1:54.0

more contemplative than normal. But equally, obviously, you know, of course, it was this attempt

1:59.0

by Cameron Bay knocked to say, well, it's not about politics today.

2:01.5

Whenever you're the leader of the opposition, anything you do is pretty much political.

2:04.3

So I think there's been a sense, perhaps, of the grooming gangs being something that the

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