Well, well, well. Britain’s grooming gangs scandal is still dominating the headlines and pressure is piling on the Labour government to conduct a probe into matter. The Tories and Reform UK are adamant there should be a national government-led inquiry, while Twitter CEO Elon Musk has persistently taken aim online at Starmer’s army over the issue.
Home Secretary Yvette Cooper finally announced an urgent national review of the scale of grooming gangs yesterday, with Louise Casey – who conducted an investigation into abuse in Rotherham – to lead the three-month review. But the Labour lot aren’t out of the firing line just yet, with the move raising questions about whether the new government are simply bowing to online pressure.
Speaking to BBC Breakfast this morning, Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy insisted this was not the case. She told presenters:
We’re not a government that governs by social media. We govern for the real world.
Victims have been warning over and over again, telling the same story about the systems that were supposed to protect them protecting themselves – and young women who weren’t believed because they were young, they were female, and they were working-class. We know what needs to be done, and as a government we are wasting no time in getting on and making sure that we deliver for those young women.
The Labour MP went on to remark that there has been ‘far too much heat on social media [and] not enough light’. Well, you would say that if your party was continually coming under fire, eh?
Watch the clip here:
'Has this review come about because of pressure from Elon Musk?'
— BBC Breakfast (@BBCBreakfast) January 17, 2025
Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy told #BBCBreakfast 'the Government doesn't govern by social media' after the Home Secretary announced a nationwide review of grooming gang evidencehttps://t.co/DVJST95m7s pic.twitter.com/4ke9qMBfky
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