report did not assess, alexis jay's report of i assess, alexis jay's report of whether ethnicity wasbeen a widespread failure to record the ethnicity of victims and perpetrators. you back in 2017, you quit the front bench because there was criticism of a newspaper article that you wrote in what you said britain has a problem with british pakistani men raping and exploiting white girls. you apologised for it at the time, for an extremely poor choice of words, but that is exactly how the reform mp lee anderson refer to it in the comments today and... is he right? i in the comments today and... is he riuht? ., �* in the comments today and... is he riuht? .,�* , ., he right? i don't accept that at all. he right? i don't accept that at all- the _ he right? i don't accept that at all. the statement - he right? i don't accept that at all. the statement that i at all. the statement that yvette cooper did in the chamber a couple of hours ago is very clear, that there is a specific sort of grooming that is happening that is being perpetrated by british pakistani men, but this is an organised c

speaking to the today programme on bbc radio 4, professor alexis jay was asked whether there's a goodher national inquiry. i don't agree with that in the sense of requiring further, more detailed national inquiries into child sexual exploitation. we have learned quite a lot from what those review that have already been undertaken, but locally, people need to step up to the mark, and do the sorts of things that have been recommended. i think there is something like 400 recommendations that we identified through a national charity, in all the reviews that had already been carried out, and many of those were simply not met. last night, the home secretary, yvette cooper, told mps that legislation making it mandatory to report child sexual abuse would be introduced in the spring. keir starmer condemned what he said were lies and misinformation being spread about grooming gangs. our chief political correspondent henry zeffman explains how we got here. though this has propelled to the top of the headlines here in the uk in an unconventional manner, ie by the world's richest man posting about

the opposition�*s view is there does need to be a new national inquiry into grooming gangs, alexis jay has given herfirst interview, you heard a bit there, so it is a very important intervention she says that o doesn't need to be a new inquiry, notjust because she says her inquiry was the final definitive word, what she was arguing, is that if there are more inquiries, or a arguing, is that if there are more inquiries, ora new inquiry, then that risks slowing down action which she believes is needed to protect children who are victims of sexual exploitation. where do ou see sexual exploitation. where do you see this — sexual exploitation. where do you see this going _ sexual exploitation. where do you see this going politically l you see this going politically next? i you see this going politically next? ., , you see this going politically next? ~' , ., next? i think we still have that very _ next? i think we still have that very live _ next? i think we still have that very live debate - next? i think we still have | that very live debate about whether there should or should not be an

he doesn't know what alexis jay's work did in the child sexual abuse inquiry.ut facts. and meta's getting rid of fact checking just when we all need to check our facts. and going back to henry's evocation of the front page of the mail on sunday — that reports that dominic cummings and elon musk could start a new political party and not just cooperate on what tweets to put out in the middle of the night. so do we think that's going to happen? i don't know. i mean, we'll see. we will see. i just think 2025 has already been a year with all sorts of things that we could never have predicted, so i'm not going to be in the business of predicting anything else, henry. anything else. henry? well, dominic cummings has said for some time that he wants to start a new political party in the uk. the extent to which elon musk might get involved is obviously fascinating. i mean, my strong bias is towards the prediction that the two main political parties will remain for some time the two main political parties, as they have been for the last century, because they are very res

he doesn't know what alexis jay's work did in the child sexual abuse inquiry. facts. and meta's getting rid of fact checking just when we all need to check our facts. and going back to henry's evocation of the front page of the mail on sunday. that reports that dominic cummings and elon musk could start a new political party and notjust cooperate on what tweets to put out in the middle of the night. so do we think that's going to happen? i don't know. i mean, we'll see, right? we will see. i just think 2025 has already been a year with all sorts of things that we could never have predicted. so i'm not going to be in the business of predicting anything else. henry? well, dominic cummings has said for some time that he wants to start a new political party in the uk. the extent to which elon musk might get involved is obviously fascinating. i mean, my strong bias is towards the prediction that the two main political parties will remain for some time the two main political parties, as they have been for the last century, because they are very resilient against all

professor alexis jay spent seven long years examining the evidence on child sexual abuse.ted. when i spoke to the chair of the independent inquiry into child abuse this morning on the today programme, she was clear. "the time for talk is over," she said. another inquiry would simply delay what needs to be done. the time has passed for more inquiries. we have had enough of inquiries, consultations and discussions, and especially for those victims and survivors who have had the courage to come forward. they clearly want action and we have set out what action is required and people should just get on with it. a furious row in 0ldham reignited this debate. local people feel let down by the police, councillors and others, who they accuse of playing down and covering up mass rape and torture by gangs of men, mainly of pakistani heritage. i call the home secretary. last night, the home secretary rushed out an announcement that she'd changed the law to make it an offence to fail to report or cover up child sexual abuse. she insists a new inquiry is not needed. none of that convinc

now the academic who led a seven year inquiry into child sexual abuse, professor alexis jay, says it'snday, the home secretary, yvette cooper, told mps that legislation — making it mandatory to report child sexual abuse — would be introduced in the spring. she also said grooming would be made an aggravating factor in sentencing. speaking to the today programme on bbc radio 4, professorjay was asked whether there's an argument for another national inquiry — which the opposition is pushing for. i don't agree with that in the sense of requiring further, more detailed national inquiries into child sexual exploitation. we have learned quite a lot from what those reviews that have already been undertaken, but locally, people need to step up to the mark, and do the sorts of things that have been recommended. i think there is something like 400 recommendations that we identified through a national charity, in all the reviews that had already been carried out, and many of those were simply not met. here in the uk, a number of major incidents have been declared as the country deals with severe w

professor alexis jay was speaking as the conservatives and reform uk call for the issue to be re—investigatedicas, reports. rotherham — one of many towns where hundreds of girls were raped and abused by gangs, mostly men of south asian heritage. a decade ago, a report detailed failings by the police and child protection agencies there. its author says politicians now seizing on the issue are ignoring the victims. certainly we've been very unhappy about the politicisation of child sexual exploitation and child sexual abuse, and the way that many people, sometimes in a very uninformed way, have waded into the argument. professorjay went on to chair a seven—year inquiry which delivered its findings two years ago. she said another national inquiry would be another delay. i think the time has passed for more inquiries. we have had enough inquiries, consultations and discussions, especially for those victims and survivors who have had the courage to come forward, and there are many of them, not simply in child sexual exploitation, and they clearly want action. and we have set out what action is req

its chair, professor alexis jay, is now working with a new group, whose mission she says is not to callor new inquiries, but to advocate for the full implementation of the original recommendations. and her group says the original inquiry, which heard from over 7,500 victims and survivors, provided a clear road map for action. yet two years later, none of its recommendations have been fully implemented. jess phillips, who has a long record of protecting women and girls, was attacked by elon musk because she has recently said that in 0ldham, a local inquiry would be better than a government led one. when the poison of the far right leads to serious threats tojess phillips and others, then in my book a line has been crossed. he said conservatives had done nothing in government and labour would make it a crime not to report child sexual abuse if you were aware of it. we you were aware of it. will bring that to live here on we will bring that to live here on bbc news. it is not correct to brand as far right _ it is not correct to brand as far right we _ it is not correct to brand as far righ

and let's not forget, there was an independent inquiry in this country into grooming gangs, the alexis jayetary shortly. the rotherham re ort secretary shortly. the rotherham report pulled _ secretary shortly. the rotherham report pulled out _ secretary shortly. the rotherham report pulled out not _ secretary shortly. the rotherham report pulled out notjust - secretary shortly. the rotherham report pulled out notjust the - report pulled out notjust the corruption locally but also the extent to which fears of being accused of being racist or upsetting community cohesion were disrupting or intimidating people from coming forward. we've got no time for that, we want to deal with those problems too, and we will. we will do that by delivering real change, notjust by talking about it, and to be honest, there has been far too much time and attention given to what one person in another country has got to say. we are more interested in what victims in this country need us to do, working with victims to make sure that they get the justice they deserve, and make sure that other people don't find them

but as alexis jay said today, the key point — but as alexis jay said today, the key point that she wantsnquiries have _ that the reporting, the inquiries have been— that the reporting, the inquiries have been done and now it is about the action — have been done and now it is about the action. �* ., ~ have been done and now it is about the action-— snow, ice and flooding are still causing disruption across large parts of the uk — including travel delays and school closures. around 130 flood warnings remain in place in england, including one danger—to—life warning for the river soar in leicestershire. 0ur reporterjessica lane has the latest. cleaning up was a team effort in leicestershire this morning. houses here lie alongside the river soar, focus of a severe flooding warning. the damage caused in this area is tremendous to the shops and the expense that people have to go to to maintain these properties. last niuht maintain these properties. last niht i maintain these properties. last night i got _ maintain these properties. last night i got in — maintain these properties. last night i g

he also said that alexis jay's report shied away from assessing many of those causes.said that many people still fear being called islamophobic for getting involved in this sort of discussion, and that comes after the prime minister, sir keir starmer, on monday said that people calling for a national pubuc people calling for a national public inquiry were jumping on the bandwagon and the poison of the bandwagon and the poison of the far right. another government intervention that has caused so much anger. also, as jess phillips, the safeguarding minister, has defended the government last night, saying that their decision to implement new 1526 00:10:21,856 --

yvette cooper told the commons this afternoon the safeguarding minister has met with professor alexis jay and survivors, and convened the first dedicated cross—government group to drive forward change and ensure victims voices remain at the very heart of this process. the government will also be establishing a victims and survivors panel to advise on wider work around child sexual exploitation and abuse. well, that, says the prime minister has defended his position as director of public prosecutions, saying child sexual exploitation is utterly sickening and it was something he had tackled head on whilst in that role. sir keir starmer also hit back at elon musk over his comments on x that claimed safeguarding minister jess phillips is an evil witch and deserved to be in jail, while yvette cooper told mps this afternoon there is no excuse for anyone not to take crimes of child sexual abuse seriously, nor is there any excuse for anyone not to recognise and act on the deep harm and damage from organised gang exploitation, abuse, sexual assaults and rape. >> ten years ago, two reports by alexi

>> plus, alexis jay report with a sorry, you're ignoring solid recommendations. >> are people jumping on the far right bandwagon if they want a national independent inquiry? >> i think those people need to explain why we need another review, an inquiry. >> does the left have a problem calling out pakistani rape gangs because it would shatter their multicultural ideology and the westminster yamal nadu giles yamal musa qala acas actor ltn £27 million of taxpayers money is spent on interpreters for benefits claimants. we are not accepting the world's best and brightest, are we? >> also, i invite you all to join this government of service. >> well, labour's anti—corruption minister is accused of having links to, you guessed it, alleged massive corruption. what's the latest? and nora forster? fears now that another deadly virus has leaked out of china? hospitals and morgues are overflowing. but what is it? and a 14 year old boy has been stabbed to death on a bus in london. is this sadiq khan's legacy? >> look at that knife, bro. man's got a shank on him, bro. >> big thing. look at that. lo

professor alexis jay, who chaired the independent inquiry excuse me, said today that people should justet on with implementing the recommendations made in previous inquiries. the comments come as the prime minister dismissed calls for a national inquiry yesterday, accusing the conservatives of jumping on a bandwagon. shadow justice secretary robert jenrick today called once again for that national inquiry. a home office spokesman issued the following statement we are working at pace across government to drive forward real action to implement the recommendations of the independent inquiry into child sexual abuse. in other news, meta has announced it's scrapping its third party fact checking service in the us after nine years and replacing it with a community note system similar to the one used by x, where commenting on the accuracy of posts is left to users. in a video posted alongside a blog post, chief executive mark zuckerberg said third party moderators were too politically biased and it was time to get back to our roots around free expression. the move comes as zuckerberg and other

. >> ten years ago, two reports by alexis jay and louise casey in rotherham found that 1400 children were sexually exploited, raped by multiple perpetrators, trafficked across other towns, abducted, beaten, threatened with guns. even children who had been doused in petrol. girls as young as 11 who were raped and their reports identified. then a decade ago, a failure to confront pakistani heritage gangs and, quote, a widespread perception that they should downplay the ethnic dimensions. >> a 39 year old man has been charged with sending malicious communications to the safeguarding minister, amid criticism from elon musk. devon and cornwall police says jack bennett has been charged with three counts of malicious communications. the messages were sent between april last year and january this year involving three victims. while commenting on the criticism of miss phillips from elon musk. the home secretary says the minister for safeguarding and violence against women and girls has dedicated her career to tackling sexual violence and abuse, and to being a voice for victims and survivors o

professor alexis jay, who chaired the independent inquiry, said today that people should just get onth implementing the recommendations made in previous inquiries. the comments come as the prime minister dismissed calls for a national inquiry yesterday, accusing the conservatives of jumping on a bandwagon. shadow justice secretary robert jenrick today called once again for that national inquiry. a home office spokesman issued the following statement we are working at pace across government to drive forward real action to implement the recommendations of the independent inquiry into child sexual abuse, and mehta has announced its scrapping its third party fact checking service in the us after nine years and replacing it with a community note system similar to the one used by x, where commenting on the accuracy of posts is left to users. in a video posted alongside a blog post, chief executive mark zuckerberg said third party moderators were too politically biased and it was time to get back to our roots around free expression. the move comes as zuckerberg and other tech executives see

professor alexis jay, who chaired the independent inquiry into child sex abuse, has said this morning that people should just get on with implementing the recommendations made in previous inquiries rather than holding another one. professor jay's comments come as the prime minister dismissed calls for a national inquiry yesterday, accusing the conservatives of jumping on a bandwagon and amplifying what the far right is saying on child sexual abuse after failing to act for 14 long years. the home secretary, yvette cooper, told the commons yesterday that the government will make it an offence with professional and criminal sanctions to fail to report or cover up child sexual abuse. she added that the government will establish a victims and survivors panel to advise on wider work around the issue. that came as the prime minister defended his position as director of public prosecutions, saying child sexual exploitation is utterly sickening and it was something he had tackled head on whilst in that role. shadow justice secretary robert jenrick mp called once again for a full national publi

professor alexis jay, who chaired the independent inquiry into child sex abuse, has said this morningthat people should just get on with implementing the recommendations made in previous inquiries rather than holding another one. professor jay's comments come as the prime minister dismissed calls for a national inquiry yesterday, accusing the conservatives of jumping on a bandwagon and amplifying what the far right is saying on child sexual abuse after failing to act for 14 long years. the home secretary, yvette cooper, told the commons yesterday the government will make it an offence with professional and criminal sanctions to fail to report or cover up child sexual abuse. she added that the government will establish a victims and survivors panel to advise on wider work around the issue. that came as the prime minister said he had tackled child sexual exploitation head on during his time as director of public prosecutions, and a short while ago, shadow home secretary chris philp said that the labour party's announcement that they will whip their mps to vote against the national inqui

there was the crowther report and in rotherham, alexis jay led her own team. but another reason why it's not surprising is because i imagine it would throw up plenty of pretty concerning things for labour to reflect on, in part because they've been in charge of that borough for a long time up until may of this year. but also, i mean, reflecting on this decision to not push forward for a government led inquiry. i mean, we can reveal that jess phillips made this decision in october, but the request went in in july. i think one of the main problems that the minister for safeguarding has is that she ignored this request for over three months and had to apologise very deeply in her letter, which this channel has seen exclusively. when she reached out to the executive of oldham council. so it is a troubling story for labour. but isuppose troubling story for labour. but i suppose what they didn't expect and what i didn't expect when i wrote the story, is that it would spark this almost international conversation. we've had elon musk getting involved in this story, bu

professor alexis jay, who chaired the independent inquiry into child sexual abuse, has said today that people should just get on with implementing the recommendations made in previous inquiries. professor jay's comments come as the prime minister dismissed calls for a national inquiry yesterday, accusing the conservatives of jumping on a bandwagon. the home secretary told the commons yesterday that the government will make it an offence with professional and criminal sanctions to fail to report or cover up the abuse. shadow justice secretary robert jenrick called once again for a national inquiry. >> i have long advocated whole life sentences for these grooming gang perpetrators and i've said that if they're foreign national offenders, get them out of our country, deport them. no ifs, no buts. so they never step foot on this soil of our country again. and the cowardly public officials who did turn a blind eye, they should be prosecuted as well. not a single one has been prosecuted so far. and that is completely wrong. we need to take action, and we need now to have a full national publ

. >> ten years ago, two reports by alexis jay and louise casey in rotherham found that 1400 childrenere sexually exploited, raped by multiple perpetrators, trafficked across other towns, abducted, beaten, threatened with guns. even children who had been doused in petrol. girls as young as 11 who were raped and their reports identified. then a decade ago, a failure to confront pakistani heritage gangs and, quote, a widespread perception that they should downplay the ethnic dimensions. >> in other news, police say a man's body has been recovered from an area of flooding in nonh from an area of flooding in north yorkshire. police believe the man may have entered the water in the last 24 to 48 hours. the man is described as white in his early 50s to 60s with short brown hair, and he was wearing a multi—coloured knitted jumper. well, that's his. two major incidents have been declared and more than 100 people have been rescued as floodwater. inundates, lincolnshire and leicestershire. yellow warnings for snow and ice are in effect across large parts of the uk, as flooding and snow caused d

. >> ten years ago, two reports by alexis jay and louise casey in rotherham found that 1400 childrene sexually exploited, raped by multiple perpetrators, trafficked across other towns, abducted, beaten, threatened with guns. even children who had been doused in petrol. girls as young as 11 who were raped and their reports identified. then a decade ago, a failure to confront pakistani heritage gangs and, quote, a widespread perception that they should downplay the ethnic dimensions. >> a 39 year old man has been charged with sending malicious communications to the safeguarding minister, amid criticism from elon musk. devon and cornwall police says jack bennett has been charged with three counts of malicious communications. the messages were sent between april last year and january this year involving three victims. while commenting on the criticism of mr phillips from elon musk, the home secretary says the minister for safeguarding and violence against women and girls has dedicated her career to tackling sexual violence and abuse and to being a voice for victims and survivors of the m

yes, professor alexis jay, who chaired the independent inquiry, said today that people should just get on with implementing the recommendations made in previous inquiries. >> the comments come as the prime minister dismissed calls for a national inquiry yesterday, accusing the conservatives of jumping on a bandwagon. shadow justice secretary robert jenrick today called once again for that national inquiry. a 14 year old boy has been stabbed to death on a bus in woolwich in south—east london. the metropolitan police says an investigation has now been launched. the incident occurred on a route 472 bus on woolwich church road. a police statement says paramedics treated him, but the boy died shortly after medics arrived at the scene. superintendent louise sergeant said the alarm was initially raised by a local police officer out on parole. no arrests have yet been made , and arrests have yet been made, and the health secretary says he feels ashamed at the experiences of some patients in the nhs, admitting that some patients are being taken to hospital to die because the right care is not a

professor alexis jay, who chaired the independent inquiry into child sex abuse, has said today that peoplehould just get on with implementing the recommendations made in previous inquiries rather than holding another one. >> professor jay's comments come as the prime minister dismissed calls for a national inquiry yesterday, accusing the conservatives of jumping on a bandwagon and amplifying what the far right is saying on child sexual abuse after failing to act for 14 long years. the home secretary, yvette cooper, told the commons yesterday. >> i have long advocated whole life sentences for these grooming gang perpetrators, and i've said that if they're foreign national offenders, get them out of our country, deport them. no ifs, no buts. so they never step foot on this soil of our country again. and the cowardly public officials who did turn a blind eye, they should be prosecuted as well. not a single one has been prosecuted so far. and that is completely wrong. we need to take action, and we need now to have a full national public inquiry. >> that was the shadow justice secretary, rober

professor alexis jay, who chaired the independent inquiry, said today that people should just get onwith implementing the recommendations made in previous inquiries. the comments come as the prime minister dismissed calls for a national inquiry yesterday, accusing the conservatives of jumping on a bandwagon. shadow justice secretary robert jenrick today once again called for a national inquiry. a home office spokesman issued the following statement we are working at pace across government to drive forward real action to implement the recommendations of the independent inquiry into child sexual abuse. in other news, a number of nhs trusts in england have declared critical incidents. this comes after the number of people in england's hospitals with flu quadrupled in the last month. the royal liverpool university hospital declared a critical incident this afternoon due to exceptionally high demand on emergency care. it's understood the longest time that one patient waited to be admitted to a ward at the hospital was 50 hours. several other nhs trusts later declared critical incidents, w

there was a national inquiry by this lady, professor professor alexis jay, while the tories were in powerinquiry going back some years. yes, but looking into child grooming and terrible rape and all these sorts of things. 20 major recommendations made by that inquiry, not one of them was implemented by the last government. so, you know, there's mud flying around in all directions here. >> i agree with you. and i think that the conservatives are on shaky ground because they didn't do enough about this while they were in office. having said that, the concern about that previous jay inquiry is that it only covered 2010 to 2014. there's a massive read about this in the telegraph yesterday suggesting this goes back to the 19805. of suggesting this goes back to the 1980s. of course, there are massive questions to be asked. were the police and other authorities and social workers and other institutions mining their political, political, correct p's and q's at the expense of vulnerable teenage girls living in impoverished communities and indeed coming out? >> and also, one should just look at nat

and i know you're going to say, oh, there was an inquiry by alexis jay and that made 20 recommendations but the scope of that inquiry was really narrow. all of the campaigners and the whistleblowers in this, maggie oliver jayne senior and others have said you need a public inquiry because this problem is still ongoing. there's been a 10% increase in cases in the last year alone. why are you resisting a public inquiry? >> well, firstly, we've got to get on with delivering change now. so it is right to say there were 20 recommendations in the previous inquiry. none of those were implemented by the last government. we are going to get on with that. secondly, you talk about the fact that many of the perpetrators of these rapes and these grooming gangs in towns in these grooming gangs in towns in the north of england were pakistani men. the casey review in rotherham already identified the fact that it was too often fear of racism being accused of racism, i should say, or fear of being accused of upsetting community cohesion that saw inaction. we have got no time for that sort of thing. and o

implement the recommendations of the independent inquiry into child sexual abuse, chaired by professor alexis jayhis is the thing, isn't it? keir starmer is saying, and he said it in pmqs, that thej report is adequate and all we need to do is implement the recommendations that were already in that j recommendations that were already in thatj report. but of course, as charlie and many others have pointed out, it was limited in its scope in terms of time frame and also the fact that it didn't just focus on these types of grooming gangs, and it didn't focus on many towns at all, did it? >> it's strange. in some ways, it was far too limited because it was far too limited because it only looked at six of these towns, but in other ways it was far too broad because it also looked at jimmy savile and the catholic church and all different types of child sexual exploitation in the wake of those scandals at the start of the last decade, it looked almost everywhere , apart from almost everywhere, apart from the other 54 towns that gb news has found, but had some of this stuff going on. >> i wonder if it suit