I saw first-hand how the grooming scandal is being weaponised. This is what Starmer must do | Gaby Hinsliff

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

50% : The idea of a national inquiry didn't come from his party but originally from Oldham's then Labour-led council, pleading for a Home Office inquiry to restore public confidence amid a flurry of online conspiracy theories about a supposed cover-up of grooming gangs.
48% : It may sound laughable, but violent rhetoric has violent consequences, so let's be very clear: under Starmer's leadership as director of public prosecutions, a landmark prosecution in Rochdale paved the way for grooming trials around the country, and he introduced reforms making it easier to bring complex sex offence cases.
4% : Just don't ask where all this outrage for rape victims was when a jury in a civil trial concluded Farage's good friend Donald Trump had sexually abused the writer E Jean Carroll, or when Trump proposed Matt Gaetz - who was facing allegations (which he denied) of sex with a minor - for attorney general.

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.