National inquiry announced into grooming gangs scandal

DAILY MAIL “We now know there was a wall of silence, a dangerous culture of denial, that reached the very top of successive governments,” writes Sue Reid.

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“Sir Keir will find that this new inquiry cannot be thrown into the long grass. The genie is out of the bottle. He will have Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, and the terrier-like Rupert Lowe snapping at his heels if it is delayed, dragged out, muzzled by lawyers or dumbed down. As the Mail said in an opinion page all those years ago: ‘What is happening in our towns is a national scandal. The lesson of all this is that censoring the truth is always very, very dangerous’. And so it has proved to be - especially for the victims and for Britain's reputation as an honest nation.”

DAILY EXPRESS