Should Starmer Investigate Grooming Gangs?

Politics Unpacked

Anna Covell

News & Politics, Politics, News

4.4 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 7 January 2025

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Calls for a national inquiry into the grooming gangs scandal are being led by the Conservatives, Reform UK and Elon Musk, but would it delay the action needed to protect children from abuse?

Hugo Rifkind unpacks the politics of the day with James Marriott and Libby Purves

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0:00.0	Hello, this is Hugo Rifkin, and now we're going to be unpacking the politics of the day
0:09.0	and the stuff that's even more important than politics too. And joining me are two of the finest minds from the Times and the Sunday Times.
0:15.2	And today they are the mind and indeed body of James Marriott. Hello, James.
0:19.0	Hello. How are you? I'm good.
0:22.0	Body good as well?
0:22.8	Yeah.
0:25.4	Yeah, I feel fresh, ready for New Year.
0:26.3	Fresh and alive.
0:28.2	As you can see, from my presence in the studio.
0:30.7	And we are joined only by the mind of Libby Purvis.
0:31.2	Hello, Libby.
0:37.6	Hello, I'm only sending my mind or a little bit of it today. Something very, very special about Libby Purvis's mind, being being directly into my ears.
0:39.2	How are you, Libby?
0:39.7	Did you have a good new year?
0:42.1	Yes, yes.
0:43.0	I'm afraid I didn't see the new year in.
0:45.2	I fell asleep and dreamed that I'd invented a new board game based on Henry the 8th.
0:50.1	Wow.
0:50.7	I mean, invent it.
0:51.9	Invent it now.
0:52.5	It was really good, yeah. It was very, very detailed. You know, you've got to go down snakes and up ladders, depending on what was happening in France and the arrival of Anne of Cleaves and everything. It's comes from watching too much more Rylance.
1:04.4	Yeah. Who do you play as? Are you playing as Henry VIII? Are you playing as his wives?
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