Mick Hartley

The truth about the grooming gangs scandal – and Sadiq Khan’s refusal to admit it’s happening in London – as laid out by Rakib Ehsan at Spiked:

The sorry truth is that Labour has neither the motivation nor the will to investigate grooming-gang activity and associated institutional failures – and that goes for the Labour mayor in London, too. It’s not hard to fathom why. Firstly, these heinous sex crimes took place in areas under Labour control. And secondly, given its perpetrators have been disproportionately men of Pakistani Muslim origin, grooming-gang activity undermines Labour’s pro-multiculturalism narrative. Much of the political left more broadly has been left paralysed by fears of being accused of racism and Islamophobia.

It seems that too many in Labour – including Khan – are ultimately more interested in protecting their personal reputations and pro-diversity beliefs, than in prioritising the safety and wellbeing of the most vulnerable in their midst. It is an ongoing scandal that will ultimately cost them dear.