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An influential Labour Party group has broken with the Prime Minister to back calls for a national inquiry into the grooming and rape gangs.<\/p>\n
The Blue Labour outfit said that a new inquiry was necessary to \u201cgive voice to the many thousands of forgotten victims,\u201d in what they described as \u201cthe worst series of atrocities that have taken place in Britain since the war\u201d.<\/p>\n
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The Labour group, which was founded by Labour peer Lord Glasman, said \u201cprogressives denied, obfuscated, equivocated, averted their eyes, changed the subject,\u201d when faced with the scandal.<\/p>\n
The statement, seen exclusively by GB News, said that many figures on the Left did \u201canything but look the dark side of multiculturalism squarely in the eye\u201d.<\/p>\n
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The group added: \u201cFor many of us in Blue Labour, the left\u2019s inability to face up to the awful reality of the organised grooming and rape of young girls by men of mostly Pakistani origin across English towns severed our faith in progressive politics for good.\u201d<\/p>\n
In a scathing attack on the party\u2019s leadership, the statement said that \u201ctoo many are still doing that today when they immediately pivot to talking about the far-right or Elon Musk. But this is not about them, and nor is it about the Prime Minister. It is about the victims and their families, and the failures at every level which enabled their abuse.\u201d<\/p>\n
The intervention will come as a blow to Labour, which is battling against demands for a national inquiry into the grooming gangs scandal from both the Tories and Reform UK.<\/p>\n
Describing some of the attempts to shut down the issue in the past, Blue Labour said: \u201cThose on the left who spoke up – Ann Cryer, Sarah Champion and others – were told to shut up. <\/p>\n
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\u201cTo acknowledge reality was considered \u2018dog-whistling\u2019 at best, if not outright racism. The victims were mostly poor and vulnerable, living in faraway working-class towns outside the glare of Westminster. They were easy to ignore.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn liberal society, it is still seen as impolite to talk about such things. The truth is so horrific it is scarcely believable and it confounds the progressive imagination. But this squeamishness is moral cowardice and it continues to this day.\u201d<\/p>\n
The group said they hoped \u201cthe renewed attention on the most awful scandal in modern British history leads to justice for the victims.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis means tougher sentencing, an end to the chilling effects of political correctness, and a total reset of our broken immigration system – including the deportation of offenders where possible.\u201d<\/p>\n
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