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Hello and welcome to Marshall Matters with me, Winston Marshall at the Spectator.

Over the last 40 to 50 years, thousands if not tens of thousands of young girls and young women across Britain have been abused, raped and some of them brutally murdered in what we know as the great grooming gangs scandal.

Last week, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and his home secretary, Suella Braverman,

announced policies to deal with the grooming gang and Sunak trying to follow through on his

promises made in his campaign to be a Conservative Party leader last year. The grooming gang's

story is a complex one and this new policy has sort of kicked up

a lot of the issues that have plagued the story for the last 20 years since it's been really in

the public domain. And here to discuss the issue, to discuss the prime minister's policy, but also really to try and get into the story and the history of the grooming gangs, what exactly has happened, who's done what to who, why it's happened.

And the extent of this is documentary filmmaker and journalist Charlie Peters.

Charlie, thank you so much for coming to speak

with me today. Thank you very much for having me. So Charlie was the director of the film

Grooming Gangs, Britain's Shame, which was released earlier this year. And it's actually pretty

harrowing, unpleasant watching, but significant and important film nonetheless.

And also, Charlie has just come back from interviewing the Home Secretary Suella Bravum.

And so I thought perhaps we should start, before going into the history of it all,

and the complex history of it all, start with the Prime Minister's announced policy.

And the significance of it where by what metrics

we can assume they'll be successful, how we judge this, and whether you think they'll be effective.

So Charlie, perhaps you can let me know what you think about the announcement.

Well, the headline policy is the NCAA supported

task force, the national crime agency. So a new task force has been set up for across the country

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