Grooming gangs: will this inquiry be different?

Coffee House Shots

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🗓️ 16 June 2025

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Following Keir Starmer's decision to call for a national inquiry into grooming gangs, the Home Secretary Yvette Cooper spoke in the Commons today about the 'collective failure' to address questions about groomings gangs' ethnicity in the Casey report. Elsewhere this week, Welfare reform legislation is being tabled, with a vote expected before the end of the month. Sir Keir Starmer has signalled his willingness to confront dissent within his own ranks. Meanwhile, the assisted dying debate is once again gaining momentum in Westminster, with MPs preparing for a free vote on one of the most ethically charged issues in British politics. Natasha Feroze, is joined by James Heale and Isabel Hardman.

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0:40.2	Hello and welcome to Coffee House Shots, The Spectators' Daily Politics Podcast. I'm Natasha
0:45.3	Froes and I'm joined by Isabel Hardman and James Heel. Now, this week in Parliament has
0:51.1	started with the announcement that there is going to be a national
0:55.2	grooming gang's inquiry. Kirstama made the announcement this weekend and here's what
1:00.3	Yvette Cooper had to say in the Commons today.
1:02.6	Mr Speaker, I warned in January that the data collection we had inherited from the previous
1:07.3	government on ethnicity was completely inadequate.
1:14.5	It was only collected on 37% of suspects.
1:21.8	Baroness Casey's audit confirms that ethnicity data is not recorded for two-thirds of grooming gang perpetrators, and she says it is not good enough to support any statements about
1:27.3	the ethnicity of group-based
1:28.8	child sexual exploitation offenders at the national level.
1:33.3	I agree with that conclusion.
1:35.3	And frankly, it is ridiculous and helps no one that this basic information is not collected,
1:42.0	especially when there have been warnings and recommendations stretching back 13 years
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