Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has been grilled by GB News Political Editor Christopher Hope on Labour's "failure" to order a public national inquiry into the Oldham grooming gang scandal.
Addressing a national press conference, Starmer told Christopher: "I think you were actually covering crime when I was DPP - you were quizzing me at the time for the Telegraph as the crime correspondent, I think for the entire five years, if I'm right, and quite rightly too, I'm not complaining in the slightest.
"But you looked at my record for five years with me as I was doing the job. I actually changed the system because I could see some of the things that were going wrong. Unlike some Tory politicians tweeting about it or talking about it, I got on with changing it.
"In relation to the serious point you do make, the victims here suffered terrible abuse, unthinkable, unspeakable, genuinely sickening abuse. And then they weren't listened to, and that has to be taken seriously. We have to do everything we possibly can to make sure that never happens again."
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Addressing a national press conference, Starmer told Christopher: "I think you were actually covering crime when I was DPP - you were quizzing me at the time for the Telegraph as the crime correspondent, I think for the entire five years, if I'm right, and quite rightly too, I'm not complaining in the slightest.
"But you looked at my record for five years with me as I was doing the job. I actually changed the system because I could see some of the things that were going wrong. Unlike some Tory politicians tweeting about it or talking about it, I got on with changing it.
"In relation to the serious point you do make, the victims here suffered terrible abuse, unthinkable, unspeakable, genuinely sickening abuse. And then they weren't listened to, and that has to be taken seriously. We have to do everything we possibly can to make sure that never happens again."
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