fromwww.theguardian.com
1 day agoGrooming gang survivors say ministers trying to water down inquiry despite reassurances
Grooming gang victims have accused the UK government of attempting to manipulate them into broadening a national inquiry to include other forms of sexual abuse, despite Shabana Mahmood's insistence that the focus will not change. They suspect that the government is trying to deflect focus away from Labour-led councils, wishes to impose a government-friendly chair and wants to avoid raising questions over the ethnicity of the perpetrators, many of whom were men of Pakistani descent.
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