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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 mou

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

and that's all conservatives in skipton, keighley and ipswich voted in favour of that full inquiry. astonishing state of affairs. and let's go back now to the man who really has kick started a global conversation on rape gangs. britain's shame. that man is charlie peters. charlie joined us again from rotherham. the dust is settling on the votes. the survivors cruelly were denied the inquiry they so sorely want. and you have fresh revelations from a survivor on that point. charlie, tell us more. >> well, martin, before we get to that important voice, let's start with some breaking news, because the labour mayor of greater manchester, andy burnham, has broken with the party line to call this afternoon for a limited national inquiry into the grooming gang scandal. andy burnham, speaking to bbc radio in greater manchester in the last hour, saying that at the end of that debate last night he heard that ministers were open to calls for a national inquiry, despite voting down that bill 364 votes against. but he said that he wants to add his own voice to that conversation. he said i do thin

they've not demonstrated that the people of rotherham, rochdale, keighley, oldham, oxford, aylesbury,ewcastle, blackpool, they've not demonstrated to them that they care. have they really. we made a massive deal over the infected blood scandal. more than 30,000 people in the uk were given treatments for infected with hiv, hepatitis c or hep b. the post office scandal 900 subpostmasters were prosecuted, but right across the country, pakistani men have been raping thousands of mostly vulnerable young working class white girls for decades. it was a bigger national scandal than anything else as far as i'm concerned. i think it's time to have a full, independent national inquiry. let's get your thoughts on my panel this evening. i am joined by tory peer lord bailey. we've also got journalist linda jubilee and former labour party adviser matthew laza as well. look, sean, i want to start with you on this. in the next hour, i'm going to be asking you a little bit more about whether there might be some kind of cultural issue when it comes to some of these grooming gangs. let's focus on the act

old ibrahim hussain, and brothers, 62 year old imtiaz ahmed and 45 year old fayyaz ahmed, all from keighleywere sentenced for rape today. they were found guilty of assaults on a girl after a trial in november and december last year. five other men were jailed for their involvement. the court heard the offenders had targeted two children. >> if we're going to be tough, yeah, let's have the inquiry, just as you say. you're quite right about that. but i don't think we should let the government get away with not taking the action. now. we need to take the action now. and i think that's what liberal democrats would urge the government and all opposition parties, and i'm sure you would agree we do need action now. >> well, that was, of course, the liberal democrats leader, sir ed davey, who 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 hun

plus, as a keighley rape gang is sentenced to nearly 58 years for multiple sexual offences against two children, we are going to be renewing the question why have we not had a public inquiry into the rape gangs? because you know what? like many of you out there, i am not letting go of this issue. state of the nation with me tonight. matt goodwin starts now. now i'll also be joined tonight by my panel columnist and former mep patrick o'flynn and former labour adviser scarlett mccgwire. as ever, let me know your views at 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. russia has responded to donald trump's ultimatum to end the war in ukraine. the us president said russia will face high levels of taxes, tariffs and sanctions if president president putin does not end the war. posting on his truth social, trump expressed his love for the russian people and his good relationship with putin and then issued

three of the men, 47 year old ibrar hussain and brothers imtiaz fayyaz ahmed, all from keighley, were sentenced for rape today. they were found guilty of assaults on a girl after a trial in november and december last year. five other men were jailed last year for their involvement. the court heard the offenders had targeted two children. 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 fahri killed jimmy and in 2008 was sentenced to 14 years behind bars, part of the 35 year old rapper's parole agreement includes being barred from entering the greenwich borough of london. but a music videos found by the sun newspaper and watched by his victim's family. fahri, 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 rapper on their one extra radio show. and former manchester united, manchester city and scotland forward denis law has died at the age of 84. law won two lea

and cryer in 2003 and keighley, she was shut down when she raised concerns.ink they don't want this national inquiry because it will expose labour failures and big problems in the past 100% it will and it will show you how little labour keeps saying that people's party. >> no they're not, no they're not. they would not let any child don't matter what ethnicity they are, they would not let any child if they were people's party, keep having to relive this and not have a national inquiry to finally get it out just before this vote happens, what would you say to the prime minister, sir keir starmer? just get on with it. let's have a national inquiry. they keep saying there's been inquiries. yeah, there's right for six towns and over 50. that's just a small percentage, right. there's not been one inquiry and then six into the ethnicity of the grooming gangs. and that is the main point. let's just get on with it and put this to bed for good. people in this country deserve to know what our children are facing. and they're facing it today. they're facing parents are