This is The Guardian.

As 2025 begins, politics has returned, but not in the way the government expected.

This week, one huge scandal continues to dominate the conversation.

Is the Prime Minister confident that we know the full extent of rape gang activity?

What is needed now is action on what we already know.

It's almost impossible to separate the very real and unresolved issues at the heart of this subject from opportunism and bandwagon jumping.

And you're asking me about disguising my language so as not to offend people.

I'm not going to tiptoe around this issue.

Is it time for another public inquiry into grooming gangs?

And away from the Westminster

noise, what does justice really look like for the victims? I'm John Harris and you're listening

to Politics Week in the UK for The Guardian. Joining me today are the Guardian columnist Gabby Hinsliff

and the Observer's Sonia Soda. Hello to you both. Hello, John.

Hi.

Hi.

Right.

We, like everybody associated with politics at the moment, are going to talk about grooming gangs and the huge number of issues that fall under that heading.

Let's talk, first of all, about why this scandal or series of scandals has returned to the news.

Quite suddenly, it seems.

Gabby, just briskly talk us through how we got from there to hear.

Yeah, I mean, it's one of those issues that may feel to people perhaps like ancient history,

but it's obviously very much not to the survivors.

...