Kemi Badenoch opens PMQs with the grooming gangs scandal after four victims have quit the government's panel.

She says she is giving her first question to Bradford survivor Fiona Goddard: "What's the point in speaking up if we're just going to be called liars?" Starmer has insisted that the inquiry's scope will examine the ethnicity and religion of the offenders and that they will find the right chair of the inquiry.

He announces that Louise Casey will now support the work of the inquiry.

Some victims on the survivor panel for the grooming gang inquiry have been prevented from questioning the two prospective chairs tomorrow, @GBNEWS can disclose.

We can also reveal that victims have had to submit questions in advance and have received 'guidance' on what to ask. @GBNEWS The limited spaces to quiz Jim Gamble and Annie Hudson were given on a 'first come first served' basis, but some victims expressed frustration that they have been left out of the process designed to champion their views.

EXCL @GBNEWS: Oldham Council has been offered a ‘truth project’ by civil servants instead of a grooming gang inquiry, despite regular commitments to a full investigation The ‘truth project’ would be a quicker process with much less impact. The format was used during IICSA to gather victim testimony.

But it wouldn’t lead to any questioning or justice for state failures.

GB News can reveal that the alternative was proposed as recently as August.

Two grooming gang victim impact statements were delivered today.

One by the prosecutor; the other by the survivor herself in the witness box.

They have bravely given their testimony at Manchester Minshull Street Crown Court ahead of seven men being sentenced on Wednesday. Girl A said "her life has been destroyed" by the abusers.

She said it affected every part of her life, including her health and relationships, but she hopes the guilty verdicts will "help me take another step forward to get my life back, as I have already lost my childhood."

Greater Manchester Police arrested five men in Oldham this morning on suspicion of rape of a child.

The men – aged 38 to 51 – were arrested over alleged offences in Oldham between 2011 and 2014. The suspects are being investigated by GMP's Operation Sherwood team, which focuses on non-recent group-based CSE in Oldham.

To date, the Sherwood team has made 21 arrests as part of GMP's dedicated CSE major investigations team.

BREAKING @GBNEWS: For the first time, the police watchdog has upheld a complaint that senior officers failed in their statutory responsibilities to protect children in Rotherham during the grooming gangs scandal. @GBNEWS Op Amazon, the complaint into senior officers, was included in Op Linden, the probe into Rotherham police failures published in 2022.

But the Amazon report was never released and references to senior failures were not included in Linden.

Today, a new summary has been released.

EXCLUSIVE: Grooming abuse gangs operated in Tameside in Greater Manchester as police missed key opportunities to intervene.

@GBNEWS can reveal that one of the alleged abusers now works in the public sector in the region. Lucy, not her real name, spent Christmas in hospital aged 14.

She had pelvic inflammatory disease caused by an untreated STD after gangs of men abused her.

A police officer visited her house as she kept going missing, but told her off for being a nuisance.

NEW @GBNEWS: A woman has denied assaulting a security guard at a hotel housing asylum seekers after a man residing there allegedly entered her blind mother’s flat with his hand on his genital area.

gbnews.com/news/migrant-h… The court heard that the trouble started on Wednesday evening when Channay Augustus was caring for her mother when an asylum seeker entered the flat.

The man was said to have “had one hand on his genital area, another in the pocket of his hooded jumper.”

BREAKING @GBNEWS: The National Crime Agency has taken control of an investigation into allegations of child sexual abuse by former South Yorkshire Police officers.

Officers from Operation Stovewood will now lead the probe independent of SYP. @GBNEWS The shift comes after the six complainants in the operation and their lawyers told the BBC and GB News that they did not have confidence in SYP to lead the investigation.

So far, three former officers have been arrested but none have been charged.

EXCL @GBNEWS: A Labour group has been slammed for promoting for a Stand Up To Racism counter-protest ahead of a demonstration at an asylum hotel in Aldershot tomorrow @GBNEWS The Farnham & Bordon CLP shared the flyer, which called on activists to “stop the far right” and march towards the hotel.

Aldershot residents are expected to gather at the hotel - where small boat migrants have been staying for several years.

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EXCL: @GBNEWS can reveal that the IOPC told a victim the name of a former police officer who was under investigation for grooming gang abuse.

The mistake was then cited by the police when they released the suspect from bail with no further action.

gbnews.com/news/revealed-… @GBNEWS Elizabeth was kept in a rape den for 10 weeks. One of her abusers was nicknamed 'PC'. She realised later that this name related to his role as a police officer.

She made a complaint this year and he was swiftly arrested.

Grooming gang victims in Rotherham have said that corrupt police officers worked alongside the gangs or failed to act on their abuse.

The BBC is reporting that five women have told them that they were abused by police officers alongside the gangs. The BBC has shared allegations that:

- a police officer supplied class A drugs to a grooming gang

- an officer had sex with girls in exchange for drugs and money

- three women describe being beaten up by officers, including in a police cell

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This is the moment that a Christian street preacher was arrested because he refused to give his details for a non-crime hate incident.

Police in Rotherham detained him after he asked a Muslim woman about Islam's teaching on domestic violence, which she alleged was intimidating. Ex-miner John Steele approached a stall offering support to women experiencing domestic abuse.

He told me that the conversation was brief and polite.

But police still swarmed him after the incident and said it was being recorded as a "hate incident".

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Exclusive @GBNEWS: This is the moment that a Labour activist awarded an MBE for services to “cohesion” called for Muslims in Rotherham to be boycotted by the community if they did not boycott the police @GBNEWS New footage of Muhbeen Hussain, obtained by GB News, shows him making a fiery speech launching the boycott to a cheering crowd made up almost entirely of men.

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Muhbeen Hussain, who led a Muslim community boycott of South Yorkshire police after the Rotherham grooming abuse scandal, has been awarded an MBE for “services to integration” and “cohesion”.

thetimes.com/uk/politics/ar… He called on Muslims to sever ties with SYP and “take all the necessary action to protect ourselves” in 2015.

His group warned: “Any Muslim groups or institutions in Rotherham that do not adhere to this policy of disengagement will also be boycotted by the Muslim community.”

Jack claims he was arrested by Rotherham police officers as he tried to free his daughter from a grooming gang den in 2005.

@GBNEWS has seen a custody log relating to Jack from that year.

But there is a problem: it lists his address as a property he didn't live in until 2010. @GBNEWS The custody sheet says he was arrested for being drunk and disorderly.

Jack denies this and thinks the document may have been falsified retrospectively to cover up the arrests when he was trying to rescue his daughter.

He says that the address error points to this explanation.

New report has found that the MCB-linked Centre for Media Monitoring ‘pressurises journalists to downplay or ignore Islamist extremism’

Despite this, many influential journalists have promoted its work.

gbnews.com/news/muslim-co… Policy Exchange said that the CfMM targeted Andrew Norfolk, the reporter who exposed Rotherham gangs, by accusing him of “scapegoating” Muslims and of “Islamophobia” for his journalism.

The report notes that "a similar pattern emerged" in the CfMM's treatment of my work.

NEW: a Muslim charity boss who gave a sermon on killing Jews has been sanctioned by the Charity Commission after a @GBNEWS investigation GB News sent the regulator footage of the speech in October 2023. It was delivered days after the Oct. 7 attacks.

Harun Abdur Rashid Holmes, who preached at the Nottingham Islam Information Point, has now been barred from acting as a trustee.

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EXCL @GBNEWS: a police force has been warned that its transgender strip-search stance is a recipe for 'coercion' as it permits searches if both parties provide 'written consent'
gbnews.com/news/police-tr… @GBNEWS In correspondence seen exclusively by GB News, Leics Police Chief Constable David Sandall said that the force will allow searches by officers who are not of the same biological sex as the detainee if both parties provide written consent.

NEW: Exclusive @JLPartnersPolls polling for GB News reveals that Brits overwhelmingly back deporting serious foreign criminals even if they're at risk of torture @JLPartnersPolls JLP also found that most voters for all parties backed the deportation policy, with 2024 Tory voters finding it the most popular at 89 per cent.

Reform UK voters came in a close second on 85 per cent, with the figure dropping marginally to 80 per cent among 2024 Lib Dems.

Yvette Cooper says the findings from Baroness Casey’s audit are “damning.”

“At its heart she identifies a deep-rooted failure to treat children as children. A continued failure to protect children and teenage girls from rape, from exploitation, and serious violence.“ She slams authorities for “too little sharing of information, too much reliance on flawed data, too much denial, too little justice and too many criminals getting off, too many victims being let down.”