16-06-2025
DAN HODGES: Starmer has known about the appalling abuse for a decade. Yet he opposed a national rape inquiry because he knew it would damage Labour
Keir Starmer knew. Senior Home Office minister Jess Phillips knew. They all knew.
Today the wall of deceit, corruption and confusion the government attempted to buttress around the rape gang scandal finally collapsed. The 'audit' produced by Baroness Casey at the behest of Downing Street – clearly in the forlorn hope it would cement the cover-up of the worst sexual abuse crisis in British history – instead brought the entire crumbling edifice crashing down.
