Overwhelming Majority of Britons Say Yes to Fresh Inquiry Into Child Rapes by Grooming Gangs

Keir Starmer, UK prime minister, prior to a bilateral meeting with Emmanuel Macron, France's president, not pictured, at Chequers near Aylesbury, UK, on Thursday, Jan. 9, 2025. Starmer and Macron will discuss issues including Ukraine. Photographer: Neil Hall/EPA/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Over three-quarters of Britons support a fresh investigation into child sex abuse by what are called predominantly Pakistani grooming gangs, something the labour government of Sir Keir Starmer has set itself hard against.

An overwhelming majority of Britons may be guilty of jumping on the “bandwagon of the far-right” — by the standards expressed by the Prime Minister this week as he moved to shut down discussion of migrant heritage rape gangs — by saying they want a deeper investigation into the grooming gang scandal. Some 76 per cent say a fresh report is needed, including a majority from every mainstream political party including even Starmer’s Labour.

Two-thirds of Labour voters disagree with the Prime Minister on the issue. 84 per cent of Conservatives want a fresh inquiry, and 91 per cent of supporters of Nigel Farage’s Reform UK do too.

There have already been several smaller inquiries into child rape gangs, or wider national reviews which touched on the matter peripherally. But critics say the scandal appears to run so deep, and so comparatively little can be said to be really known — there aren’t even good estimates on how many victims there have been nationwide, nor agreement on how many grooming gangs there are — that a fresh investigation is needed to “connect the dots”.

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