GB News issued an update as the grooming gang inquiry faces ‘complete and utter chaos’.
GB News halted for breaking update (Image: GB News )
GB News was halted as host Patrick Christys announced a breaking news update. It comes as Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood shared an exclusive statement with the news channel, as she said that there are “no hiding places” for grooming gangs that are “predatory monsters” and that she will “salvage” the inquiry into them.
Patrick noted how the inquiry has faced complete “chaos” the past few days as four grooming gang survivors quit from being a part of the inquiry after concerns about it being “watered down”. They also felt that they were being “silenced”. He added: “The other bit of drama, if you want to call it, is that the Chairwoman also quit today.” However, Ms Mahmood has said: “It is time for truth. For years, the victims were ignored. A few, this channel included, listened to them and gave them a voice. But – to its eternal discredit – the state in its many forms, did not heed their call until it was too late.”
Ms Mahmood released a statement (Image: Getty)
Her statement continued: “In time, we came to know this as the ‘grooming gangs’ scandal, though I have never thought that the name matched the scale of evil. We must call them what they were: evil child rapists.”
It follows Labour MP Jess Phillips exploding in the House of Commons after calls for her to step down. Phillips was responding to questions over the Oldham grooming gang inquiry in the House of Commons, and was accused of “letting Oldham council tell her what to do”.
She fumed: “Can I just be completely clear? I am suggesting that I will listen completely and utterly to the feedback from the victims that were and still are [giving].
“They are not spreading misinformation at all, but his interpretation is a brilliant case in point, because I will be completely honest, the conversation with Oldham is ‘Do we not think it might be better for them just to take part in a statutory inquiry?’ It is absolutely nothing to do with the idea that Oldham is telling me what to do.”
She went on, referencing a member of the opposition “He can hold up his paper and have a smug face all he likes, but the fact of the matter is there is absolutely no council in this country who will tell this enquiry where it can and cannot go.
“I have said that one million times from this dispatch box, and yet the same thing gets hackled again and again.”
