Sir Keir Starmer’s woes look set to worsen as the majority of Britons still support a national inquiry into the grooming gangs but want Nigel Farage’s party to lead it.
The shock result came as Home Secretary Yvette Cooper announced a plan in the Commons on Thursday to support local inquiries into the grooming gangs scandal, which saw scores of white working-class girls trafficked and raped by men of predominantly Pakistani heritage from 1997 to 2013.
She also announced a string of additional measures, including £10million in funding to tackle grooming gangs and better support victims and a three-month audit to assess the scale and severity of abuses.
Although officials stress that this review is not a national inquiry, it’s a partial climbdown after the vote to hold one was defeated in the Commons last week.
Starmer will be hoping that this will be enough to satisfy the public’s appetite for a new inquiry into the grooming gangs, but new polling provides a further headache for the PM.
The polling, shared exclusively with GB News by Friderichs Advisory and JL Partners, has found the majority of Britons want a new national inquiry, with 73 per cent in favour and 14 per cent opposed.
Voters overwhelmingly want Farage to lead an inquiry in fresh blow to Starmer
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Furthermore, voters want Farage and Reform to handle the national inquiry – not Starmer.
When asked: ‘Which political party would you trust most to handle a national inquiry into the grooming gangs scandal?’
Twenty-three per cent of respondents plumped for Reform, pipping Labour to the post by one percentage point.
The Conservatives trailed in third place with 16 per cent of the vote and Lib Dems came last with a paltry nine per cent of the vote.
It comes after Nigel Farage’s party vowed to fund its own unofficial inquiry into the grooming gangs scandal earlier this month.
He told The Peoples Channel: “Parliament is completely out of touch with the country, I promise you.
“This is the biggest conversation that is going on in family homes, in pubs, in clubs all over the country.
“People are outraged. Charlie Peters of GB News, who I mentioned in the House of Commons today, has done so much incredible work on this.
“We learnt this was happening in at least 50 towns around the UK, but Labour are in total denial over the whole thing.
“Don’t forget it was a Labour MP that first blew the whistle on this back in 2002, and they’ve been trying to bury it ever since.
“The reason is that they cannot admit at any point that the multicultural experiment has had some serious problems.”
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He added: “If the Government don’t give in and we don’t get a proper inquiry into this, and goodness knows we do need one, and then we will raise the money and we will appoint or find some sort of independent retired judges to run the thing.
“No, we’re not going to back off from this. The country deserves to know the truth about, firstly, the extent of what happened and secondly, the extent of the cover up and who was involved in that cover up.
“We know already from stories that this involves the social services and police.
“But does this go all the way up to the Crown Prosecution Service? Has Sir Keir Starmer got questions to answer? I don’t know is the truth of that.
“What were the motivations of those that committed these rapes. Were they actually racist motivations? Again, I’m not sure, that’s what the inquiry has to be for.”
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