Mick Hartley

A letter to the Home Secretary from the four survivors of the grooming gangs who’ve quit the inquiry:

Me and the other survivors have come together to speak about the main issues that lead to us resigning and we have responded to the home secretary's statment last night with conditions that would need to be met to ensure that this inquiry runs smoothly for us to consider… pic.twitter.com/l6JTzHO811

— Fiona goddard (@fionagoddarduk) October 22, 2025

From the Times:

Last night the four women who resigned from the advisory panel said they would return to the inquiry if Phillips resigned. In a letter to Shabana Mahmood, the home secretary, they set out five conditions for their return. They said Phillips’s “conduct over the last week has shown she is unfit to oversee a process that requires survivors to trust the government. Her departure would signal you are serious about accountability and changing direction”.

Goddard told Times Radio: “I think that there needs to be an apology swiftly followed by Jess Phillips’s resignation.

“I do not think a woman who can call a survivor of the grooming gangs a liar publicly to save her own skin should be in a position of protecting and safeguarding women and children.”

Good for her. Good for all four of them.