This is The Guardian.

Today, how the grooming gang's inquiry became such a mess.

For the urgent question, to ask the Home Secretary to make a statement on the recent criticism of the statutory inquiry into the rape gang scandal.

It was never going to be easy to run a national inquiry into a subject as contentious as so-called grooming gangs.

It hasn't even started, and already things seem to be going unusually badly.

Survivors of child sexual abuse have quit the national inquiry into grooming gangs.

Ellie Reynolds and Fiona Goddard resigned from the oversight panel.

Last week, a group of survivors on the advisory panel quit.

In my opinion, I think that this panel is aiming to prevent the truth from coming out about the fact that we do have grooming gangs in the country that are predominantly Asian-Pakistani.

They worried the inquiry was going to duck the hard questions.

And we're unhappy with the potential choices of chair.

One, a former social worker and the other an ex-police officer.

The main systems and institutes that consistently failed survivors over decades.

Some called for the resignation of Jess Phillips, the safeguarding minister in charge of the inquiry.

But others said they would quit if Phillips was forced out.

And this week, Nigel Farage decided to get

involved, calling for MPs, of all people, to take the whole thing over and get it done

and dusted by Christmas. It's time for Parliament to step up and to do its job.

It's an all-mighty mess. An inquiry mistrusted by the very people it's set up to serve,

with no chair, no terms of reference, and no justice for victims who've already waited years,

sometimes decades. Women now, girls then, girls who were preyed on, coerced, manipulated and deceived into having sex

with groups of older men, girls who suffered beatings, gang rapes, girls having to have abortions,

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