I knew Sadiq Khan liked to drag his feet on doing any real work, but I thought that a topic as important and severe as investigating grooming gangs in London would be enough to get him on his feet and working for London. I’m afraid I was wrong.
Almost a year ago, I pressed Khan on whether or not there were grooming gangs that operated in London. In a now-famous exchange, first broadcast on GB News, the Mayor shamefully tried to ignore the question whilst trying to goad me into saying anything that he could misconstrue as racist.
I wasn’t going to let up then, and I haven’t let up since. In the months intervening, I have questioned everyone - senior Met officials, the Mayor, and City Hall bureaucrats - about the existence of grooming gangs in the capital.
Whilst Khan has buried his head in the sand, I have sought to shine a light on this heinous offence and get justice for the vulnerable young girls who are helplessly preyed upon in our city.
City Hall Conservatives found the money in Khan’s last budget to fund a £4.5million grooming gang inquiry in London - an inquiry that Labour, the Greens and Lib Dems rejected at a vote.
That inquiry could have already been underway, exploring child sexual exploitation in a city where we know there have been historic failures, such as in Lambeth and Tower Hamlets. Instead, it hasn’t.
I’ve had to continue pushing Khan and his officials to try and get any information, whilst talking to victims and survivors to piece together what is going on.
Meanwhile, others have also bravely been doing the work to expose this horror, such as GB News’ own phenomenal Charlie Peters, who I know has tirelessly strived to expose the cover-up of this evil.
Today, I can reveal why you know nothing about the grooming gangs in Sadiq Khan's London - Susan HallIt is the work that Charlie and others do that encourages me to keep faith that we will get justice for those who have been silenced for too long.
When those in power fail to do the right thing, it is our free press that holds them to account on these failings, and I am sure that Charlie and others will be responsible for many more shocking revelations until the day that justice arrives.
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