GB News tackled the thorny topic of the grooming gangs scandal on this morning’s show, amid the news that Keir Starmer has made a “massive U-turn” and agreed to an enquiry going ahead. The Labour PM said he’d accepted the recommendations of Baroness Louise Casey’s audit into the data and evidence and believed a “full national enquiry” was “the right thing to do”.

It comes just weeks after he accused the Conservative Party of “jumping on a bandwagon” and “amplifying far-right voices” when they demanded an investigation into child sex abuse by Pakistani gangs. Perplexed-looking host Stephen Dixon declared that a “demand for an apology” from Starmer was “understandable”, as the PM had “called this a far-right demand at one stage”. Political commentator John Oxley admitted it would be “very interesting” to see what was in the report that had “convinced” Starmer to “change his mind”.

Stephen Dixon and Anne Diamond discussed the grooming gang scandal on GB News (Image: GB NEWS)

Blasting police officers and social officers for not taking “victims” seriously, he agreed with Stephen that action should be taken fast.

“Clearly Baroness Casey, who’s very respected in this area, has looked into it and said that actually, there is a case,” he declared.

His comments came just moments before Charlie Peters took to the show to quiz: “Why was a ten year old girl who was part of [a] trial described as a prostitute by social workers?”

Stephen declared: “All right-minded people were saying this needs to be looked at on a national scale [but] it’s the fact that’s gone from ‘jumping on a far-right bandwagon’ if you were calling for this to now saying, ‘Yes, we must have [an enquiry].'”

Charlie warned that Casey’s report will be “absolutely damning” when it hits the news, possibly as early as tomorrow morning.

There have been calls for police officers to take action (Image: Getty)

He added that it will contain horrifying details that “journalists have been able to tell this government for years”.

“An investigation two years ago found that 50 different towns and cities have been affected,” he exclaimed.

Charlie added that media have been “relentless” in reviewing “many years of cover-ups, political failures [and] police investigations that have gone awry – but with very little action taken by government, until now.

Stephen looked on in astonishment as he referenced a whistle-blowing police officer in Bradford who’d been threatened with arrest when he made a call for action, while some concerned citizens have been accused of fuelling “racial tension” due to the Pakistani nationality of many gang members.