Farage’s parliamentary grooming gang inquiry won’t work
From our UK edition
Nigel Farage’s call this week for parliament to seize control of the grooming-gangs inquiry sounds superficially compelling. The government’s statutory inquiry has stumbled – survivors have resigned, the chair has stepped down, and momentum appears lost. Why not, Farage argues, bypass this chaos with a parliamentary investigation that can summon witnesses, operate transparently, and confront uncomfortable truths about ethnicity that others will not touch? Unfortunately, replacing a flawed process with a fundamentally unsuitable one does not constitute progress – merely a different type of institutional failure. Farage’s proposal, unveiled alongside resigned survivor advocate Ellie-Ann Reynolds, positions a select committee inquiry as the antidote to bureaucratic paralysis.
