whistleblower and charity founder maggie oliver weighs in. after i bring you a breaking news update from the northern town of keighley. and as labour promises just £10 million to fund five separate grooming gang inquiries at a local level, many fear that figure will be nowhere near enough. our panel will give their expert analysis and as kemi badenoch gets herself in a bit of a muddle over means testing the triple lock on british pensions is her cool and collected public persona beginning to slip? state of the nafion beginning to slip? state of the nation starts now. and i'll also be joined throughout the show by my panel. the political commentator ammon bogle and the former adviser to jeremy corbyn, the journalist james schneider. and as ever,

let me know your views. gbnews.com/yoursay. but first, before we get cracking, it's time for the news with tatiana sanchez. >> charlie. thank you. we start this news bulletin with some breaking news. former manchester united, manchester city and scotland forward denis law has died at the age of 84. manchester united football club has posted on x, saying everyone at united is mourning the loss of denis law, the king of the stretford end. law won two league titles with united and was a member of their european cup winning side under sir matt busby in 1968, when they became the first english club to lift the first english club to lift the trophy. he scored a total of 237 goals in over 400 appearances during an 11 year spell at old trafford. the aberdeen born footballer, previously announced in august 2021 that he'd been diagnosed with dementia. a family statement said he fought a tough battle, but finally he is now at

peace. in other news, a group of eight men who were part of a west yorkshire grooming gang in the late 1990s have been jailed. charlie peters has more on that story in just a moment. that says sir ed davey has welcomed the government's announcement for a series of local inquiries into the grooming gang scandal. the home secretary announced government backed local reviews in five areas yesterday, stopping short of committing to a full scale national inquiry. a lawyer representing victims told gb news there may be hundreds of thousands of victims in every town and city across the country. the liberal democrat leader said action is needed more quickly. in other news, a nazi obsessed man who stabbed an asylum seeker to death or attempted to has been jailed. callum parslow was handed a life sentence and will serve a minimum of 22 years and eight months in prison after he attacked a man at a hotel in worcestershire in april last year as a protest against small boat crossings. the 32 year old

has hitler's signature tattooed on his arm, and also used a knife worth over £700 that he'd purchased online to attack nahum chagos, the victim, who was stabbed in the chest and hand, said it was a miracle that he'd survived. and finally, the man who served 14 years in jail for the murder of schoolboy jimmy mizen, has been recalled to prison for breaching his licence conditions. jake fahey killed jimmy and in 2008 was sentenced to 14 years. the 35 year old was released on licence in june, almost two years ago following his 14 year term, but was recalled yesterday morning . part recalled yesterday morning. part of the rappers parole agreement includes being barred from entering the greenwich borough of london. however, in music videos found by the sun newspaper and also watched by his victim's family, fahey, who goes by the alias gb10, was filmed in front of canary wharf inside that area. culture secretary lisa nandy says the bbc should reflect on the decision to showcase the drill. rappen decision to showcase the drill. rapper, who was promoted on their one extra radio show.

those are the latest gb news headlines. for now, it's back to a state of the nation with charlie 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. >> we start tonight with some breaking news. eight men have been given jail sentences of nearly 58 years for multiple sexual offences against two young girls in keighley in west yorkshire, over the last two years. several groups of men have stood trial at bradford crown court after being charged with a variety of sexual offences. well, today it can be revealed that those men have been given jail sentences . after been given jail sentences. after the first trial, which concluded on the 20th of october of 2023. five men received the following

sentences. amri ashgar was jailed. parwaz ashgar mohammad din, sajid mahmood khan and zaroon razzak , fayaz ahmed, zaroon razzak, fayaz ahmed, imtiaz ahmed and ibrar hussain were sentenced today. their trials were linked. so far no independent investigation has looked at this area and the local labour run council says they don't want one. when the keighley mp ann cryer first raised concerns about grooming gangsin raised concerns about grooming gangs in this area in 2002, she was called a racist. so how did sadiq khan respond when susan hall asked him about the extent of abuse gangs in london yesterday? >> so are you saying we haven't got the same sort of gangs that are in rotherham and bradford and lots of other places in the country? are you saying understanding? >> what does she mean by that? >> what does she mean by that? >> you know full well what i mean by that. it's all over the television. you know exactly what i mean by that. these gangs

of people that are grooming young girls for sex, do we actually have those in london? >> well, after two weeks of relentless coverage on this national atrocity, attempts to stonewall questions like that or ignore concerns about this scandal that just won't work anymore. a lot of people have only recently learned the extent of the abuse gangs crisis. before, we were gripped by a conspiracy of murmuring people being a bit nervous talking around this topic. but now that murmuring has become a crescendo roar and only proper investigations and action will overcome that anger. well, joining me now to discuss more on this ongoing issue of the grooming gang scandal is maggie oliver. and, maggie, first, can i just get your reaction to those sentencings in keighley today? they just showed, don't they, that this is an ongoing

crisis? it's not a thing of the past. >> yes. good evening charlie. yeah, it's an ongoing crisis. but the first thing that jumps out at me is the inadequacy of the sentences. it's taken these kids 25 years to get some form of justice. and yet eight men. it means they're going to. they've been sentenced to about seven years each. they'll be out of prison in three years. and that, for me, doesn't reflect the magnitude of the abuse that they are guilty of. and that is one of the features of these cases that i've seen repeatedly. there is some justice there. too little. it should have been deau little. it should have been dealt with 25 years ago. but for the victims, i think they will feel some sense of satisfaction that at least their rapes have been recognised. >> and maggie, just looking through some of the detail from the sentencing today, in one case, one of the survivors giving evidence at the trial

said that there were queues of men at the corridor going into the flats. we've got a handful of men being sentenced today, but all too often, as you know, as we know, hundreds of perpetrators are escaping proper investigation and action by the state. >> they absolutely are. charlie, i mean, what you've just said there just reminds me straight away of the rochdale case. there was a guy his wrote, his street name was ray, and he had a flat and on the back of the door he used to have a list of all the abusers. and every time they used his flat to rape a child, they would tick a box and they'd pay they would tick a box and they'd pay him a rent. at the end of the month. that man was never prosecuted. we knew who he was, and yet they chose not to charge him with any offences. and so these same failures run through many of these cases, and they're still, in my opinion, failing to get a proper grip of them. and what that little clip you've just shown with sadiq khan, that

to me is just the same wilful blindness or pretending you don't know what's going on that i've seen repeatedly and which in large part is responsible for why we are here today. but the good thing is that he is now being called out for that, and it shows full well that he is just being obstructive, that he is trying to pretend we don't have this issue that won't wash anymore, charlie, because in large part, for a lot of the good work that you've done and gb news has done, but the public throughout the country now gb news has do