Grooming Gangs National Inquiry Announced

Newscast

BBC

Politics, News

4.4 • 6.4K Ratings

🗓️ 15 June 2025

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Today, we look at the announcement that there will be full national statutory inquiry into grooming gangs.

Sir Keir Starmer said he had accepted the recommendations of an audit by Baroness Louise Casey into the data and evidence on the nature and scale of group-based child sexual abuse.

And as the conflict between Israel and Iran continues, Laura, Paddy and Henry Zeffman, look at what the UK is doing in response.

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New episodes released every day. If you're in the UK, for more News and Current Affairs podcasts from the BBC, listen on BBC Sounds: https://bit.ly/3ENLcS1 Newscast brings you daily analysis of the latest political news stories from the BBC. It was presented by Paddy O’Connell and Laura Kuenssberg. It was made by Chris Flynn and Josh Jenkins. The technical producer was James Piper. The assistant editor is Chris Gray. The senior news editor is Sam Bonham.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts. Hello, Paddy.
0:06.0	Hello, Laura. Now, we stirred the pot by asking how much news is too much news, even though we're newscast.
0:12.9	What was the answer? Well, I can give you this email from news junkie Hayden.
0:19.4	Hello, Hayden. Good question. I'm a real addict on all the important doom and gloom.
0:24.0	It feels important to keep up to date, but it does kill your brain.
0:27.6	Perhaps the odd pet rescue story would help if there's time.
0:31.1	I love pet rescue stories. I mean, any stories about pets?
0:34.3	It's not a pet rescue story, but there is a story of a budding bromance, which is a
0:39.4	photograph. Let's describe this picture. Bromance brandishing beers. So it's the prime
0:46.9	ministers of Canada and the United Kingdom with a pint watching a hockey playoff game at a pub in Ottawa.
0:56.0	It's very natural.
0:59.1	Oh, they do look like they get on.
1:01.3	They must have met when he was governor of the Bank of England.
1:03.8	Well, I don't know, because back in the day, Kyrsummer was a new SMP at that point, I think.
1:09.0	Well, Mark Conno did sort of endorse the Labour Party during the general election campaign, if you remember.
1:14.3	He did. He did.
1:14.8	Before he had gone back into Canadian politics.
1:17.0	He did. And didn't he do a piece of work for Rachel Reeves?
1:19.4	Didn't he lead some growth commission or something or other when they were trying to work out what to do?
1:22.8	Hello, Henry, by the way. It's Sunday's newscastle. You're with us. Hello. Sorry, I just couldn't help but leap in with my one piece of Mark Carney information,
1:30.6	which is utterly useless now that he's actually the Prime Minister of Canada.
1:33.2	It was completely relevant, though. It gave us important background context to the budding
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