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The public is rightly focused on the violent attack that unfolded in Belfast on Monday. But today, Reform is keen to remind Labour ministers that it has not taken its eyes off the grooming gangs scandal, with swathes of questions remaining unanswered.
Party chairman Lee Anderson has written to his Labour counterpart, Anna Turley, demanding a more thorough explanation of how ‘the greatest state failure in British history’ unfolded. Anderson warns the party of government that it ‘cannot keep evading reasonable scrutiny’ and that ‘the public deserve the truth’. In his letter, the Ashfield MP says that ‘many of the complicit local authorities were (and are) Labour run’. He lists 50 questions and tells Ms Turley that ‘you must now set out the answers, clearly and in full’.
Here are the questions in the letter Reform sets out specifically for Labour leadership hopeful Andy Burnham:
In 2003, the family of a survivor of the grooming gangs, ‘Amy’, wrote to then Home Secretary David Blunkett. Blunkett has denied ever receiving a letter. Andy Burnham was Parliamentary Private Secretary to Blunkett at the time — did he ever see this letter?
