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Kemi Badenoch accused the government of breaking his promise to establish five local investigations on preparation gangs despite committing to do so.
The conservative leader said that Sir Keir Starmer had promised £ 5 million to finance five local investigations on preparation gangs, but delivered only one, in Oldham.
Duration questions about the prime ministers, Badenoch suggested that Sir Keir was “dragging the heels” in consultations to protect the labor councils from the scandal.
Sir Keir said the Labor were “investing more to deliver the truth and justice” for the victims of the toilet gangs that the conservatives had been “14 long years” of power.
The ministers have faced a growing growth to reveal which are the gang gang consultations along with the review in Oldham, and an audit of three months of national evidence that is the baroness of problems of solucing signs of Louise Casey signs.
Earlier this month, Tom Crowther, the lawyer who helped develop the schemes, suggested that local consultations about cleaning gangs had stagnated since they were announced in January.
Crowther, who presided over the investigation of child sexual abuse in Telford, Shropshire, gave evidence to the Committee on Internal Affairs of the Commons in early April and told parliamentarians that he had asked a government official “Do you still love me?”
The problem was raised again in the common on Monday, when the protection of Minister Jess Phillips, told parliamentarians that he expected that there were more than five local consultations.
The workforce was focusing on ensuring that “there is a local responsibility process that changes real things on the field,” Phillips told parliamentarians.
Duration An Exchange of PMQS Acalorado, Badenoch sought to join inquiries of the preparation gangs to the local elections, a series of mayor tips and votes throughout England on Thursday.
Tory leader said voters faced an “chaos and cover -up option under labor advice or better services under conservatives.”
Badenoch repeatedly asked Sir Keir to update local consultations. When he did not respond, she said that “he can’t name a single place because nothing is happening.”
She questioned whether the prime minister was “dragging his heels” about local investigations on toilet gangs because he hears “does not not want to exposed a laborist,” and added that the investigations had begun “the local authorities not.”
National investigation was needed since local probes “cannot force witnesses” and “cannot force people to give evidence under oath,” Badenoch said.
Sir Keir accused Badenoch or “remain silent” about the government’s issue while “supervised the first prosecution of the gang” as director of public prosecutions.
He told the commons: “I was the prosecutor who brought the first case.
“At the back of that, I changed the entire focus of the prosecutions, which was later praised by the government that we were correct, and brought those prosecutions.”
Unlike the conservatives, the Labor were “implementing the existing recommendations” of the National Research of 2022 on child sexual abuse and “providing local research,” he said.
For more than a decade there have been a series of high profile cases in which groups of men, predominantly Pakistani ancestry, were convicted of abusing and raping white girls in the United Kingdom.
In 2022, Professor Alexis Jay published the conclusions of a seven -year national investigation into child sexual abuse, which investigated abuse in churches and schools, as well as through gang preparation.
The conservative has been asking for a national second to the preparation gangs since the problem of Elon Musk technology pushed attention at the beginning of the year.
The proposal was backed by opposition parliamentarians, as well as some work figures, including Rotherham Sarah Champion’s deputy along with the Labor Mayor of Greater Manchester Andy Burnham.
Tracy Brabin, the Labor Mayor of West Yorkshire, has rejected the calls to local investigation in his constitution, saying that the victims “want justice” no more “speak.”
“This is not a political football, it is the real life of the people we must put in front and the center,” he said.
Liberal Democrats have asked the government to be concentrated in the implementation, the 20 recommendations made by Jay’s investigation.
On Monday, the party spokeswoman Lisa Smart said that parliamentarians “owe it to” victims not only “offer words of support, but to deliver justice and bring criminals to the account.”
Reform UK has supported the calls for national investigation and has previously offered its own to finance theirs.
The party leader, Nigel Farage, has previously accused the Labor and Conservatives of “not bringing justice to the thousands of victims in multiple decades of these horrible crimes.”
The co-leader of the Green Party, Carla Denyer, said that Badenoch “seems determined to use this problem as an excuse to boost its own agenda and try to make political capital.”
“An leader of an important political party that takes care of sexual abuse and exploitation of girls would put the victims and their needs in front and the center and sacrifice to address misogyny,” he added.
