gb news with me matt nation on gb news with me matt goodwin. the show that speaks up for the forgotten majority. on tonight's show, for the second time in just over a week, the labour party has denied the thousands of rape gang victims a national inquiry. moments ago, the government voted down the tory amendment that would have forced the much needed investigation. i'll be giving you my views about this shameful move in just a few minutes. i'll also be. i'll also be speaking tonight to one of the first people to break the grooming gangs story. special investigations editor at the mail, sue reid, joins me live in the studio tonight as we ask the question, has the media failed the victims to. we'll also be looking at the case of the rochdale grooming gang leader, who, astonishingly, is still living in the uk nearly ten years after his deportation order. is it time to sanction pakistan and do whatever is necessary to deport these sixth child rapists? that's the question i'll be asking tonight.

plus, is labour pushing us to the brink of an economic crisis as government borrowing reaches as government borrowing reaches a 25 year high? we'll be looking tonight at whether this catastrophe could send the uk economy back to the stone age. that's state of the nation. with me tonight. matt goodwin starts right now. now i'll also be joined tonight by my panel leader writer at the telegraph, sam ashworth hayes and the journalist and broadcaster matthew stadlen. as even broadcaster matthew stadlen. as ever, let me know your views. gbnews.com/yoursay and hit me up on x at goodwin mj. but now it's time for the news bulletin with sophia wenzler. >> matt. thank you. good evening. it'sjust >> matt. thank you. good evening. it's just gone. 8:00. these are your headlines. mps

have just voted against kemi badenoch call for a new national inquiry into grooming gangs. >> the ayes to the right were 111. the noes to the left, 364. so the noes have it. the noes have it. unlock. >> they voted down an amendment to the children's wellbeing and schools bill proposed by the conservatives, which would have looked to force a statutory inquiry into grooming gangs, which labour have refused. it was voted down by 364 votes to 111, with all labour mps voting against. shadow home secretary chris philp has responded in the last few minutes, saying it's important to find out the truth. >> national statutory public inquiry that covers not just some towns, as previous reports have done, but covers all the towns where this happened and has the legal powers to get evidence and make witnesses appean evidence and make witnesses appear. we need to get to the truth. victims are asking for that and i just don't understand why. keir starmer and the labour

party are refusing to initiate this proper public inquiry. >> in other news, at least two people have been killed and 70,000 have been ordered to evacuate as three massive wildfires tear through the suburbs of los angeles in california. the fires, fuelled by dry weather and strong winds, are pushing dangerously close to homes, forcing tens of thousands of residents to flee. the la. city fire chief says there are a number of significant injuries, and we are absolutely not out of danger yet. he said. the body found in the search for two missing british hikers in italy's dolomites is believed to be that of sam harris. 36 year old aziz cyriac and samuel harris, 35 years old, were last heard from on the 1st of january close to lake garda. authorities confirmed the body was discovered buried under snow. a palace for life charity, which mr harris worked for, said it is aware of reports that the body of sam harris has been

recovered, adding it was devastated to receive this news and his thoughts and deepest sympathies go out to his loved ones. they said no further information was available on the whereabouts of his friend aziz ziraat, and a new amber warning has been issued for snow for the southwest of england, likely to cause travel delays and stranding some vehicles and passengers. britain is bracing for a deep freeze as temperatures are set to plunge as low as —15 degrees this week. the coldest of the winter so far and potentially the coldest january in 15 years. the met office has issued fresh snow and ice warnings for northern scotland and northern ireland, as well as the southern counties of england, with subzero conditions expected nationwide. the uk health security agency is also warning of rising health risks, extending its cold weather alert for england until sunday. those are the latest gb news headlines. now it's back to matt for the very latest gb news

direct to your smartphone. >> sign up to news alerts by scanning the qr code or go to gbnews.com/alerts. >> welcome back to state of the nafion >> welcome back to state of the nation with me, matt goodwin. now, shockingly , tonight, labour now, shockingly, tonight, labour and other mps voted against a tory amendment for a national inquiry into the pakistani muslim rape gangs. a party that has already committed to holding dozens of inquiries is tonight refusing to hold one on the mass rape of white working class children across dozens of communities up and down these islands. why has labour refused to back this national inquiry? i think there are a few reasons. firstly, i think labour's gaslighting you. i think labour mps will tell you that it's about their already having been about their already having been a national inquiry on this issue, but that's not really true. the major inquiry that we

have was not focused solely on the issue of the pakistani muslim rape gangs at all. it bundled this issue up with a lot of other issues connected to sexual exploitation. it looked at only six local areas, some of which were not affected by the rape gang scandal at all. it didn't look at areas like bradford and many other local authorities that even today, are probably still grappling with rape gangs on their streets. the recommendations in that earlier report were too weak. that's why not a single police officer, not a single social worker, not a single local council leader, many of which, by the way, were in labour held areas, have been held responsible for looking the other way while our children were raped, abused and harassed by organised criminality. they didn't even really mention areas like rotherham or rochdale in that earlier report, and when they did, they often talked about paedophiles like liberal democrat cyril smith, not the pakistani muslim rape gangs.

it's clear to everybody in this country that this is a national systemic crisis, that this needs more than detailed local inquiries. we need to have a reckoning with this issue as a country. we need another national inquiry. and, you know, the other thing that i can't help but wonder tonight is labour's opposition to a national inquiry, perhaps rooted in something else, perhaps rooted in its very strong support from muslim voters, from muslim communities, and from the fact that many of labour's radical left progressive mps cannot accept what this scandal is telling us, that multiculturalism in britain is not working, that mass immigration in britain is not working, and that the entire progressive worldview, which would have you believe that minorities are good and the majority is bad, has been turned on its head by this scandal, which has shown that actually members of a minority community are willing to rape, abuse and

harass members of the majority. that's my view on what's happened tonight. i think it's shameful, and i think that many people out there in the country, millions of people, the forgotten majority, will not let the labour party forget what they think about this issue. as always, let me know your views via gbnews.com/yoursay. tweet me on x at goodwin mj. but tonight i'm joined by my panel to discuss this issue. leader writer at the telegraph, sam ashworth hayes and a journalist and broadcaster matthew stadlen. now, sam, to me it feels as though the pressure on labour is already almost unbearable. elon musk is still tweeting. the reform party are campaigning on the issue. there's part of me that thinks even though labour have voted against a national inquiry tonight, that that inquiry tonight, that that inquiry might be inevitable, that the pressure might prove too much for the labour party. what do you think? >> i think if the labour party doesn't do this, then the next party in government may well do so. it certainly feels as if

we've sort of opened pandora's box on this one. it's going to be very hard to put the story away again. and i think the case for a national inquiry is pretty much unanswerable. people talk about the ipcc report, they talk about the ipcc report, they talk about the ipcc report, they talk about the local inquiries. but the fact is that these are patchworks across the country that don't cover the whole thing. in some cases, they don't really focus on the issue at all. and until we r