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Keir Starmer to launch grooming gangs inquiry that will make witnesses testify

By staff14 June 2025No Comments2 Mins Read

Keir Starmer has confirmed that there will be a statutory inquiry into grooming gangs which means it will have the power to compel witnesses to testify and provide documents

18:15, 14 Jun 2025Updated 18:27, 14 Jun 2025

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Keir Starmer has revealed an inquiry will be held into grooming gangs(Image: Wiktor Szymanowicz/Future Publis)

A new national inquiry into grooming gangs will be launched after a major report on the issue, Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has revealed.

The Prime Minister, who has previously resisted calls for another probe, said it was now “the right thing to do”. And he confirmed it would be a statutory inquiry, which means it will have legal powers to compel witnesses to testify and produce documents. It comes as the findings of Baroness Dame Louise Casey’s rapid audit into group-based child exploitation and abuse are due to be announced next week.

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Baroness Dame Louise Casey’s rapid audit into group-based child exploitation and abuse are due to be announced next week(Image: PA)

Mr Starmer said: “I have never said we should not look again at any issue. I have wanted to be assured that on the question of any inquiry. That’s why I asked Louise Casey who I hugely respect to do an audit.

“Her position when she started the audit was that there was not a real need for a national inquiry over and above what was going on. She has looked at the material she has looked at and she has come to the view that there should be a national inquiry on the basis of what she has seen.”

The PM added: “I have read every single word of her report and I am going to accept her recommendation. That is the right thing to do on the basis of what she has put in her audit.

“I asked her to do that job to double check on this; she has done that job for me and having read her report, I respect her in any event. I shall now implement her recommendations.” According to a leak of Baroness Casey’s review, it is said to state some victims were “institutionally ignored for fear of racism.”

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