Four women who resigned from the victims liaison panel have called on Jess Phillips to resign - while five survivors on the panel have backed the safeguarding minister
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Four women who resigned from the victims liaison panel have called on Jess Phillips to resign - while five survivors on the panel have backed the safeguarding minister
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A long-awaited inquiry into grooming gangs may now not take place until next year.
The government said Jess Phillips has the ‘full backing of the prime minister and home secretary’ insisting she will stay in post
It comes as four survivors quit the probe citing concerns
Survivor Fiona Goddard said there was a ‘high risk of people feeling silenced all over again’
A full statutory inquiry into UK grooming gangs will soon begin work
The danger is this will be another inquiry allowed to grind on for years at great cost and to little avail
Jim Gamble, a former police officer, has taken his name out of the running, it is understood
