The former Tory chairman Sir Jake Berry is questioning “why” Keir Starmer opposes an inquiry into the grooming gangs scandal.
He highlighted just how serious and bad this scandal is at it affects 50 towns, which is a lot more than the six which was originally identified.
Berry told GB News: “They love public inquiries, but apparently not in this case. And you ask yourself, why?
“As recently as 2020, a shadow cabinet minister called for a full inquiry into what wallpaper the then Prime Minister Boris Johnson had put up in his flat in Number 10 Downing Street.”
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Berry said that Starmer is reluctant to hold an inquiry which comes as he was the Director of Public Prosecutions, he told GB News that the Prime Minister has “a tremendous case of amnesia again from his time as public prosecutor.”
He slammed Starmer saying, “He claims all the time I was Director of Public Prosecution, I’m tough. I’m tough on criminals.
“But whenever one of these serious cases comes forward, apparently it’s nothing to do with him.”
Berry recalled PartyGate when Boris Johnson was holding parties in Downing Street, Starmer told MPs in the House of Commons at the time “the buck stops with you.”
Berry fumed, “The buck stops with you, Prime Minister, as leader of the DPP and as Prime Minister. Get on and do it.”
On Monday a Tory MP has called for Sir Keir Starmer to be “investigated” when he was the Director of Public Prosecutions.
Robbie Moore MP ripped into Starmer over his handling of the grooming gangs scandal when he was the chief prosecutor and during the Prime Minister’s press conference on Monday he said that the Labour leader” looked weak” and was “nervous.”
Moore told GB News, “What’s clear is he did not go far enough. He was in a prominent role to be able to deal with this issue, and he did not go far enough.”
He said that Starmer “was not showing the strength of a Prime Minister that we should all be expecting.”
Shadow justice secretary Robert Jenrick has called for a national inquiry, he warned, “what we’ve learnt more recently is the sheer scale of what is happening.”
“The Jay Review, for example, looked at six towns. We now suspect at least 50 towns have had grooming gangs of this kind,” Jenrick told BBC Breakfast.
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