>>a >> a very, very good afternoon to you. >> it's 3:00 pm on friday and welcome to the martin daubney show here on gb news broadcasting for you live from the heart of westminster and all across the uk. >> on today's show, with the labour party in turmoil over the rape gang scandal, an astonishing new survey has shown that 76% of the british public now demand the inquiry that labour mps refused. >> at the end of a week when rape gang survivors could be silenced no longer. >> i'll be joined by our heroic reporter charlie peters, plus campaigners and survivors groups. and today, nigel farage's reform party is holding its sold out south—east conference, with reform polling joint first with labour on 25%. we'll be live from sandown racecourse and be joined by by the leader, nigel farage, the outsider who suddenly neck and neck with sir keir starmer. today is the deadline for councils to apply for a

postponement of local elections in may, when labour were expected to take a battering and reform to surge. >> but data are exclusively revealed today on the show will revealed today on the show will reveal an astonishing 9 million voters are set to be denied the right to vote in may. >> is your area impacted? make sure you stay tuned. >> and over 1000 british farmers, from the farmers to action group of today, taking to the roads in their tractors with go slow protests across the four corners of britain, they've also targeted supermarkets and distribution centres. >> on today's show, i'll be joined by farmers who are roaring to the government. >> you've picked the wrong fight and football fans could be allowed to booze on the terraces. if an experiment in women's football plays out. >> currently, the sport's strict anti—alcohol rules prohibit a cheeky snifter in the stands. >> but if fans behave themselves, could the game of two halves become the game of a few pints? >> that's all coming in the

show. >> welcome to the show. well, what a week it's been. the grooming gang scandal rocked on and on, and this week the survivors simply refused to be silenced. and to the latest on the scandal shaming the nation. >> of course it is grooming gangs and shocking . gangs and shocking. >> new police figures out today have found that rape gangs are committing more than two sexual abuse offences every single day across england and wales, blowing the theory out of the water that this was just something that happened in the past. and today, gb news can exclusively reveal that 76% of adults want a national inquiry into grooming gangs. so is sir keir starmer completely out of touch with the british public and in opposition? >> there's some information on screen there that i found out earlier on. >> sir keir starmer demanded

nine inquiries, most of them attacking the conservatives. there was even one over dominic cummings, i test and of course wallpapergate covid inquiries into financial contracts, you name it. sir keir starmer wanted an inquiry about it, but he doesn't want an inquiry into rape gangs. why is it that these things seem much more important to the prime minister? the covid pandemic dominic cummings eye test excuse robert jenrick links to a tory party donor, a covid contract, sexual misconduct in schools, lobbying row between david cameron and an australian banken david cameron and an australian banker, boris johnson , and banker, boris johnson, and wallpapergate lucy letby. the child killer and failings of the nottingham killings. investigation of valdo calocane all of those things deemed more important, clearly to the prime minister in opposition than when he's in power now. it's an astonishing state of affairs. but first, the man of the moment. joining me now is gb news national reporter charlie

peters. charlie, i also want to start by echoing what i've been saying to you all week. my son, what reporting you've been doing. you've captured the world's attention. elon musk has become something of a superfan. i don't think i've seen anybody else on the planet retweeted more than you. but joking aside, this conversation is firmly back in the spotlight, perhaps where it should have been years ago. you've been fighting on this, charlie for years. its front, its centre. we had a vote. the survivors didn't get what they want, but andy burnham dramatically enter into the fray. tell us the latest of what's been an astonishing week in politics. >> well, martin, the government's position is now under significant pressure, in particular, as you just mentioned, because of that senior labour figure, andy burnham, the mayor for greater manchester, coming in yesterday and saying quite dramatically that he actually thinks there is a case for a national inquiry, although we use the term limited, limited national inquiry, which some survivors have raised concerns about with me. and also we've heard this

morning from harriet harman, a labour member of the lords, she thinks there's now a case for a national inquiry as well. and last night we revealed that the former labour mp khalid mahmood, who was in office for some 23 years until the last election. he also backed a public national inquiry, the first labour figure to break with the government on this was maurice glasman from the blue labour group, also a member of the house of lords. he said that before the vote took place, as far as i can tell, martin he was the sole member of the labour party in office , who the labour party in office, who called for a national inquiry before 364 mps from the government and its allied parties went ahead and said we won't have that inquiry now. since then, martin, as you said, we have had that reaction from survivors but also from labour party figures. but we've been speaking to survivors and campaigners and also, importantly, some whistleblowers who blew the lid off this

scandal when it first erupted properly in 2014. well, earlier ispoke properly in 2014. well, earlier i spoke to jayne senior in rotherham, who was a whistle blower, a key whistle blower in that town. she told me that we need this national inquiry to finally hold public sector workers who failed to account. >> i think, first of all, it should have been a vote where mps were not going to be whipped. they could, you know, decide themselves. yeah. and i think there should be a national inquiry. i think it needs to be very different to what people are kind of shouting for. i don't think it needs to take seven years, and i don't think it needs to be an investigation, inquiry that, you know, just gives us statistics. after a yeanl gives us statistics. after a year, i think it needs to go one step further and it needs to look at those senior professionals that were complicit, ignored this, covered it up, you know, because we sit here and you look at not just rotherham, but you look across the uk, i am not aware of any professional that's ever been held to account for this, either

in any town or the 50 towns that you've identified @gbnews. and also, we need to get away from this, this language that, you know, if we call them grooming gangs, we call them rape gangs, we call them paedophiles. you know, it's not about it being far right, and it's not about it being racist. it's about calling it for what it is. these are children whose lives have been turned upside down, you know that. have they've been raped, they've been tortured, they've been trafficked. and yet we're arguing over what terminology to use. well, should we just get round table and actually talk about what we can do to stop this? i had a survivor message me yesterday. quite upset, quite angry. she's done no campaigning for a few years because she had a baby and she just messaged me and she just said, enough is enough. i'm fed up of people speaking for me and what happened to me and what should come next. i want to get back to

campaigning again. i want to be speaking out. i want to be telling it from my point of view. and she said, i'm just fed up of watching people on the tv, making it all about them. and it's like, why are politicians ripping lumps out of each other over this? >> a lot of survivors have shared their anger with gb news at the fact that it took four months, almost, for the government to respond to them in oldham, and rejecting that government led inquiry. and it was also revealed that jess phillips, the safeguarding minister, hadn't spoken to any of the survivors from oldham before she made that decision. she didn't understand the local issues that caused them to make that request. do you think that's a sign that the government doesn't take survivors seriously enough when it comes to their demands, and they just reject them after a long delay? >> i think it's a very poor decision. you know, a four months is a long time to wait for months is a long time to