Starmer to launch a child’s gangs investigation

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The UK Prime Minister, Sir Kerr Starmer, will conduct a full legal investigation within the scope and extent of the sexual exploitation of children, after months of pressure to do so.

Starmer said on Saturday that before the need to investigate the gangs based on the recommendation of Baroneh Louise Casey, said Starmer said on Saturday.

It was carried out Scrutiny From the scope and nature of gang -based exploitation throughout the country, after scandals appeared for the first time in northern England in 2013.

“Its position when I started checking was that there was no real need to conduct a national investigation. I looked at the material and it came to the point of view that there should be a national investigation on the basis of what I saw,” Starmer said.

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The case appears earlier this year after Elon Musk posted on the social media platform X on this issue and called for a national investigation, a requirement that the opposition Conservative Party and Nigel Farage in the United Kingdom.

In January, Downing Street said the victims “do not want to see a national investigation, they want to take action to achieve justice.”

“I have never said that we should not look again in any problem. I wanted to make sure of the issue of any inquiries. That’s why I asked Louise Casey, which I respect greatly, a review,” Starmer told reporters while he was on a way for the G7 group of prominent nations in Canada on Saturday.

Starmer added that he had read “every word” from the Casey report and that he would “accept her recommendation.”

“This is the right thing to do on the basis of what I put in her scrutiny,” Starmer said. ))

Starmer said the report will be “legal under the Inquiries Law”, but it will take some time to prepare “in an organized manner.”

“Kiir Starmer does not know what he is thinking of what an official report did not tell him,” said Kimi Badnush, leader of the Conservative Party.

Badnoush said the investigation should be done “properly and quickly.”

Earlier this year, Interior Minister Evet Cooper announced local government inquiries in GROMING GANGS, where she provided 5 million pounds in financing up to five local inquiries in historical cases, including one in Oldham. They are expected to follow the judge’s investigation form, which occurred in the gangs of Telvord.