The Tory leader and Sir Keir Starmer had a fiery clash during Prime Minister’s Questions (PMQs) on Wednesday over the grooming gangs scandal.
Kemi Badenoch warned the Prime Minister that if he continues to block a public inquiry into the grooming gangs scandal then “people will start to worry about a cover up.”
Badenoch has demanded a national investigation to end the “culture of cover ups” across British institutions.
Badenoch reminded Starmer that he had previously called for nine inquiries last Parliament, but now he is resisting a public probe.
Badenoch told MPs in the House of Commons, “Does he not see that by resisting this one, people will start to worry about a cover up?”
She said, “He talks about some of the local inquiries, but these interlinked issues cannot be covered by local inquiries alone.
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“The leaders of the manchester inquiry resigned because they couldn’t get evidence or summon witnesses.
“The PM called for 9 inquiries in the last parliament. Does he not see that resisting calls for this one people will start to worry about a cover up?”
The Tory leader then asked Starmer if he knows the full extent of the “rape gang scandal,” which comes as the Prime Minister is the former chief prosecutor at the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS).
Badenoch said, “The new year has started with a focus on the decades-long rape gang scandal.
“Across the country, thousands of girls were tortured and sexually abused at the hands of men who treated them as things to be used and disposed of, destroying many lives forever.
The Prime Minister has mentioned previous inquiries. He is right, there has been an inquiry into child sexual abuse, but it wasn’t about the rape gang scandal. In its 468 pages, it mentioned Rotherham just once.
“Is the Prime Minister confident that we know the full extent of rape gang activity?”
She said that previous investigations have failed to “join the dots” and that people in the UK still do not have the “full picture.”
The Speaker of the House Lindsay Hoyle had to shut down PMQs as Labour MPs were left raging at Badenoch’s attack on the Party.
Badenoch furiously said, “Let us have the truth! The PM cannot face the scale of the scandal. He doesn’t want questions asked of Labour politicians who may be complicit.
“He won’t listen to the victims who are calling for a national inquiry.
“Later today he will tell labour MPs, including in Telford, Rochdale, Bristol, Derby, Aylesbury, Oldham, Bradford, Peterborough, Coventry, Middlesbrough, Newcastle, Ramsgate – tell all of these people to vote against a national inquiry into the gangs which have systematically gang-raped children in their constituencies!”
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