The UK Chief of the Home of Commons, Lucy Powell, has been beneath hearth from grooming gang victims after a radio present during which she downplayed the subject.
In an episode of BBC Radio 4’s ‘Any Questions’ again on Could 2, Labour MP Powell interrupted presenter Tim Montgomerie, when he commented on a Channel 4 documentary ‘about rape gangs’.
She replied: ‘Oh, we wish to blow that little trumpet now, can we? Yeah, OK, let’s get that canine whistle out’.
Conservative Jesse Norman known as on her to ‘put apart celebration politics’ and apologize.
The Telegraph reported:
“She replied: ‘Can I really thank him for elevating with me what I stated in an episode of Any Questions final week, so I could be completely clear with the Home immediately, particularly to the victims and survivors of kid sexual abuse and grooming gangs, that I’m very sorry for these remarks’.
‘As I made clear over the weekend, I and each member of this Authorities need your reality to be heard, wherever that reality leads. Their really appalling experiences must be acted on for these accountable to be accountable and face the complete power of the legislation and for justice to be served’.”
Not content material with ignoring rape victims’ calls to sack Lucy Powell after her disgusting remarks, Keir Starmer positioned her subsequent to him at Prime Minister’s Questions yesterday to essentially rub salt into the injuries.
This psychology will not be regular. pic.twitter.com/ThObj8ss3q
— Anthony Boutall (@anthonyboutall) May 8, 2025
“’I’d by no means need Mr. Speaker to depart the impression that these very severe, profound and far-reaching points which I’ve campaigned on for a few years needs to be shied away from and never aired – removed from it. No stone will probably be left unturned and what the victims need at the start is for motion to be taken and for the numerous, many suggestions from the earlier inquiries to be carried out in full together with obligatory reporting of kid sexual abuse one thing I’ve known as for for almost a decade’.”
It’s been virtually every week after Powell’s remarks.
“’Each police power in England and Wales has been requested to look once more at historic grooming gangs instances and they are going to be reopened the place it’s applicable to get perpetrators behind bars… I hope the Home is left in little question of my dedication to those points, and my apology to these victims for any misery I’ve induced’.”
“I’m very sorry for these remarks”
Labour MP Lucy Powell apologises for her appalling remarks concerning the Pakistani grooming gangs.
Too little too late. She’s solely sorry as a result of she stated what she and her colleagues actually thought. Apologising received’t be sufficient. Resign! pic.twitter.com/JjKIUoTR36
— Chris Rose (@ArchRose90) May 8, 2025
An unnamed Labour MP has known as for Starmer to dismiss her from his Cupboard within the wake of the scandal.
“The MP stated: ‘Why is she nonetheless there? I actually don’t understand how she stored her job. I’m largely proud of the Cupboard as it’s, however Lucy must be sacked’.”
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