Lowe profile shames Shabana's stitch-up

YOU could have heard the screams of “stitch up” coming from living rooms up and down the land when Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood announced — without the slightest embarrassment — that the chair of the rape gang inquiry would be Labour peer, Anne Longfield, and fellow panel members would be Labour Party member Zoe Billingham and Labour sympathiser, Eleanor Kelly.

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Worse still, Billingham is chair of the police remuneration body and of the Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust, while Kelly is a former chief executive of Southwark Council. The victims expressly said they did not want any people connected to the very institutions under investigation by the panel, namely the police, the NHS, local government and social services (not to mention Labour politicians) and was the very reason two potential chairs withdrew their candidacy.