Emily Carver has launched a scathing attack on the Labour government, accusing them of a "betrayal of victims" over their approach to grooming gang investigations.The row centres on claims that ministers are "watering down" previously promised local inquiries into grooming gangs.Emily expressed her fury on GB News, where she claimed Labour had "snuck in" policy changes on "the last day of term".READ THE FULL STORY HERE
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00:00Yesterday evening, was it, when Charlie Peters brought it to light for GB News that Labour
00:06have just snuck in on the last day of term, a little change to their policy, just three
00:11months after they said we're going to have these local inquiries instead of a national
00:15inquiry.
00:16I'm just going to scrap those plans now.
00:18We're just going to have a little flexi fund where local authorities can choose if they
00:23want to take part.
00:24Because we know that local authorities are ever so keen to investigate themselves.
00:29And their own actions.
00:31And we can really rely on those local authorities to check behind their own ears.
00:37But there was an excoriating exchange in Parliament yesterday between the Home Office team and
00:44the Shadow Minister, Katie Lam, who highlighted the reticence of some of these councils to
00:51actually instigate these investigations.
00:54The fact that the man the Labour government appointed to lead this stuff hasn't heard
00:59anything about whether or not these investigations have started, these inquiries have started.
01:04And she spoke about some of the most powerful testimony that we've heard in the court transcripts
01:11of some of these convictions.
01:12But it's crazy, isn't it?
01:13Because one of the biggest issues, one of the biggest charges against local authorities
01:19is that they covered up, they didn't hold people accountable, and now they're not going
01:24to be held accountable unless they choose to mark their own homework.
01:27It's total madness.
01:29I do see it as a betrayal of the thousands of victims.
01:32And of course it does seem that this issue has dropped out of the news agenda on other
01:36channels.
01:37There was a time at the start of this year when everyone was talking about this where we
01:40are not giving it up.
01:41We are going to keep the government's feet to the fire on this.
01:44So do stay with us throughout the programme here.