Later today, I will be presenting the Public Office (Child Sexual Abuse) Bill to close this abhorrent loophole and bar anyone who facilitated, enabled, or turned a blind eye to child sexual abuse from holding any public office, position of authority, or job paid by taxpayer funds.
Starmer’s Shadow Cabinet ministers have repeatedly lent support to activist groups that seek to reduce police powers to crack down on those very same gun-toting gangs.
From Labour’s perspective, the one thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
There is no time for writing yet more reports about Child Sexual Exploitation: the Government wishes to show it is now going to act.
We need action. And we need ministers who understand how to exercise power. They need to use that power to take decisions and make sure they are implemented.
How the pendulum swung from the police not pursuing guilty Savile to pursuing innocent Proctor – and the disaster of Operation Midland.
Children are being groomed, raped, and trafficked, because the authorities are still not doing their jobs properly.
His in-tray features: Covid, mental health, NHS reform…and social care. He’s set to be the most pressured Health Secretary since Lansley.
Yesterday, he bent the passage of time – by giving the Commons the chance to carry out a Covid reckoning before the inquiry is up and running.
We’ve seen gunshot wounds and babies born as a result of rape. With UK Border Force in Dover, we found a girl heading for a lifetime of sexual slavery.
Getting the economy moving won’t even begin to give the Government political momentum. It will need to conduct its own Fairness Audit.
Any fair-minded observer would think better of him at the end of yesterday’s press conference than he or she may have done at the beginning.
They seem no less relevant this morning than they were yesterday – and are unlikely to be answered this afternoon.
By placing a duty on authorities to commission sufficient, child-specific support and advocacy services, along with developing separate statutory guidance, child victims of abuse can access uniform support, regardless of their location.