UK: Two Survivors Quit Grooming Gangs Inquiry Panel
The Spin
Pro-government narrative
The government is grappling with an inherited catastrophe with substantive action. Starmer's prosecutorial reforms enabled landmark convictions while survivors' voices drive genuine accountability. The mission of this government has not changed: an independent inquiry is in the final stages of its establishment, finally bringing truth and justice to those who have been so badly let down.
Opposition narrative
Labour's shameful obstruction, initially refusing any inquiry, then engineering a toothless charade, perpetuates the very cover-up it claims to investigate. By appointing ex-police and social workers whose institutions orchestrated the original betrayal, and smearing inquiry advocates as "far-right," this government proves itself complicit. Survivors face fresh institutional betrayal while rapists remain undeported and authorities remain unaccountable.
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