The journalist who exposed the grooming scandal breaks his silence
The News Agents
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4.2 • 4.3K Ratings
🗓️ 7 January 2025
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
As Kemi Badenoch, Nigel Farage and Elon Musk call for a new inquiry into the grooming scandal, we speak to the man who uncovered the Rotherham abuse and whose reporting led to the original inquiry. Andrew Norfolk first wrote about this horrific widespread exploitation of young girls more than a decade ago as chief investigative reporter at The Times. He has given his first interview to The News Agents since Elon Musk's intervention to set the record straight on the scandal - and respond to those whom he accuses of 'shameful' behaviour - the weaponising of horrendous acts for political gain.
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:08.2 | This is a global player original podcast. I have been somewhat taken aback by the storm that is |
| 0:16.4 | blown up over the past few days, triggered by comments from Elon Musk. |
| 0:22.1 | I have been concerned by what seems for me to be an utter disclosure of the truth. |
| 0:28.9 | And I have a feeling that in certain aspects of what had been claimed, |
| 0:34.4 | I'm in a position to set the record straight. |
| 0:37.2 | If there is one man who understands the grooming scandal inside out, |
| 0:43.5 | it is that voice you've just heard. |
| 0:46.6 | Andrew Norfolk, the investigative reporter for the Times, |
| 0:49.8 | was on this from the very beginning, more than 20 years ago, |
| 0:56.0 | living, reporting in the region, in South Yorkshire. |
| 1:00.9 | And he's giving us his very first broadcast interview, |
| 1:05.3 | propelled to do so by what he calls the shamefulness |
| 1:09.0 | of the political response and discourse around it now. |
| 1:13.5 | Welcome to the newsagents. |
| 1:17.9 | The newsagents. |
| 1:19.6 | It's Lewis. |
| 1:20.5 | It's Emily. |
| 1:21.6 | And you've heard a lot doubtless already. |
| 1:24.5 | We spoke about it a lot on the show yesterday about this story, or rather |
| 1:28.8 | kind of the confluence of stories that we've had, of Musk, the online world, social media, |
| 1:35.7 | fusing with this decade old story, more than a decade old story of Muslim Asian grooming gang, |
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