Keir Starmer announces statutory inquiry into grooming gangs scandal
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has announced that there will be a statutory inquiry into the grooming gangs scandal.
This comes after recommendations from a government-comissioned report by Baroness Louise Casey.
He told reporters today (Saturday, June 14) that he had read 'every single word' of the report and accepted the recommendation for an inquiry.
Keir Starmer said: 'From the start I have always said that we should implement the recommendations we have got because we have got many other recommendations… I think there are 200 when you take all of the reviews that have gone on at every level and we have got to get on with implementing them.
The PM shared the news on Saturday (Image: Stefan Rousseau/PA) 'I have never said we should not look again at any issue. That's why I asked Louise Casey who I hugely respect to do an audit.
'Her position when she started the audit was that there was not a real need for a national inquiry over and above what was going on. She has looked at the material she has looked at and she has come to the view that there should be a national inquiry on the basis of what she has seen.
'I have read every single word of her report and I am going to accept her recommendation.
'That is the right thing to do on the basis of what she has put in her audit. I asked her to do that job to double check on this; she has done that job for me and having read her report, I respect her in any event. I shall now implement her recommendations.'
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