Keir Starmer did not want to hold an inquiry into grooming gangs. He did everything that he could to ignore the rape and torture of children which has scarred towns across England. Louise Casey’s audit of group-based child sexual exploitation and abuse was almost certainly commissioned to get him out of a tough spot and get calls for an inquiry out of the papers.

It was only after Labour were left with absolutely no choice in the matter, damned by the scale of abuse documented in Casey’s report, that an inquiry was finally commissioned.

It should therefore be no surprise that before the inquiry has even begun, it is being undermined. Four months after Starmer bowed to pressure, the Home Office have confessed that a chair of the inquiry still hasn’t been appointed. The scope of the inqui

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