Five survivors of grooming gang abuse have resigned from the government’s national inquiry panel, accusing officials of betrayal and manipulation.
Jessica and Elizabeth (not their real names), joined Fiona Goddard and Ellie Reynolds, who quit the inquiry’s victims and survivors liaison panel on Monday in protest.
The survivors said the inquiry has become “less about the truth and more about a cover-up.”
Jessica said she was stunned to learn that the two prospective chairs were a former police officer and social worker, Jim Gamble and Annie Hudson.
“When I found out the two potential chairs were a former police officer and a former social worker, I was shocked and I didn’t know how they could be involved.”
PM opposed enquiry
All five women were appointed earlier this year to help oversee the process but claim the government silenced survivor voices and allowed political convenience to replace transparency. But now ITV reports they have listed five conditions for their return including the resignation of Jess Phillips as safeguarding minister. But another five survivors want her to stay.
Their resignations are a blow to Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer, who the BBC reports backs Ms Phillips and who launched the inquiry in June, promising to uncover the full scale of grooming gang crimes across England and Wales. But the Prime Minister spent months opposing it and was forced into an inquiry only after the June report of Louise Baroness Casey, as the Independent concedes, defending his U-turn to the BBC’s reporter Chris Mason.
The Bible says:
Psalm 82:3 Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy. 4 Deliver the poor and needy: rid them out of the hand of the wicked.
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’Conflict of interest’
All survivors criticised the shortlisting of two candidates for the inquiry chairmanship, one a former police chief, the other a social worker. They argued this represented a “disturbing conflict of interest,” since both institutions had previously failed to protect victims.
Ms Reynolds told BBC Radio 4 that the inquiry required a senior judge “completely impartial and non-biased.” As the Bible says:
Deut 19:18 And the judges shall make diligent inquisition: …
Many survivors agreed, fearing the same state bodies that enabled their suffering were now leading the investigation. The establishment was ‘marking its own homework’.
’Toxic, fearful environment’
According to the Bible, cover-ups are a tendency of those in power:
Isa 1:23 Thy princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves: every one loveth gifts, and followeth after rewards: they judge not the fatherless, neither doth the cause of the widow come unto them.
Ms Reynolds described a “toxic, fearful environment,” claiming survivors were allowed to ask only two pre-approved questions to the potential chairs. She said participants were “gaslit to believe we were helping when, in reality, we were being controlled and silenced again.”
The allegations suggest a repeat of the institutional behaviour that allowed grooming gangs to operate for years. Many believe officials are more concerned with managing optics than confronting the uncomfortable truths of race, religion, and systemic neglect.
Eph 5:11 And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them.
The government’s defence
Safeguarding Minister Jess Phillips denied accusations of manipulation, insisting that the government remained “committed to exposing the failures” of past authorities. She claimed the delay in appointing a chair was “standard procedure” and not evidence of interference. But the inquiry is now in disarray, having been set back months, according to reports.
Survivors argue that the inquiry’s credibility has already been compromised. Ms Phillips maintains that the government wants a leader “who will earn the trust of those who have been let down so often by authority.”
Prov 21:2 Every way of a man is right in his own eyes: but the Lord pondereth the hearts.
Ms Goddard said officials had repeatedly sought to broaden the inquiry’s scope from grooming gangs to wider issues of child sexual abuse in ‘as a deliberate move to blur accountability.’
Ms Reynolds wrote that the push to “downplay the racial and religious motivations” behind the abuse amounted to “rewriting history.” She insisted those factors were central to why victims were targeted — and why institutions failed to act.
Isa 5:20 Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!
Public outcry and political pressure
The resignations have drawn condemnation from across Parliament. Shadow Justice Secretary Robert Jenrick warned the episode “casts a real shadow over the government’s efforts” to expose one of Britain’s gravest scandals.
Professor Alexis Jay, who led the seven-year inquiry into child sexual abuse, said past governments “lacked engagement” with her 20 key recommendations. Many survivors fear this new inquiry will go the same way, more bureaucracy, less justice.
This new crisis follows the conviction of seven men in Manchester for the systematic abuse of teenage girls in Rochdale, a tragic reminder that grooming gangs remain an open wound in British society.
In London, mayor Sadiq Khan stands accused of refusing even to acknowledge rape and grooming gangs exist, according to GB News
Micah 6:8 He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the Lord require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?
Why is there a cover-up?
In the light of all this, people are entitled to ask why the establishment are so intent on down-playing the scandal. Two dynamics appear to be driving their attempted denial that at the root of the rape and grooming of vulnerable young girls is the Islamic doctrine, expressed over and again in the Koran, that Muslim men are entitled to take ful advantage of those whom ‘your right hands posses’.
The first dynamic is the dependence of those currently in office on the Muslim vote. Four pro-Hamas Muslims took MP seats from Labour in the July 2024 General Election. Next time, the party is afraid more seats could fall. Jess Phillips herself clung on to her Birmingham Yardley seat by a majority of only 693 votes. Wes Streeting held Ilford North by a mere 528.
The second dynamic is the elite’s adherence to the anti-Christian doctrine of multiculturalism,
brought in to dilute and chip away at the United Kingdom’s Christian heritage and Christian Constitution.
Second dynamic: Multiculturalism
Yesterday morning (23/10/2025), during a visit to the Peacehaven Mosque, which was the target of an arson attack after the Yom Kippur attack in Manchester, the Prime Minister took aim at the display of the St George’s Cross and the Union flag. He criticised ‘some people, just like the people who attacked this mosque, some people, a minority, only want to use the flag to divide’. There is no evidence of either flag in the Peacehaven attack.
The Prime Minister was then asked to respond to Conservative MP Katie Lam’s assertion that multiculturalism has failed. Sir Keir told ITV: ‘I can’t tell you how much I disagree with her.’
He added: ‘I think that her approach where people who are lawfully in this country, who have been working in our communities, perhaps in our schools, our hospitals, running businesses, our neighbours, people lawfully here. She wants to reach in and remove them from our country for cultural reasons, she says. That is how far the Conservative Party has sunk.’
Yet only days ago, it was reported a young Muslim doctor was arrested over pro-Hamas antisemitic comments. But there has in truth been no end of NHS Muslim doctors and nurses celebrating the 7th October 2023 massacre or so-called ‘Al-Aqsa Flood’.
Again, it is a reality, uncomfortable indeed to our ruling class, that violent antisemitism is also written in to the Mohammedan religion. A self-confident Muslim contingent in our population is plainly incompatible with the continued safety of our Jewish communities.
Read and pray
To sum up, the pattern of abuse, neglect and political hesitation has eroded trust in public institutions. Until truth is told and justice pursued without fear or favour, the nation’s conscience remains stained.
For the Church, this is a time to stand with the oppressed and to pray that those in authority may finally act “to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God.”
READ: 2 Chr 19:6–7; Ps 82:3–4; Prov 21:15; Isa 5:20; Isa 59:14–15; Jer 22:3; Amos 5:24; Matt 5:10–12; Lk 6:22–23; 2 Cor 4:8–9; 2 Tim 3:12; Heb 13:3; 1 Pet 3:14–17; Jas 1:12; Rev 2:10..
PRAY: Thank God for these brave women. Pray for justice for the survivors of the grooming scandal. Pray for honesty in our leaders. Pray for an end to multiculturalism. Pray for our leaders to return this United Kingdom to the King of kings. Pray also in the knowledge that God indeed rules in the affairs of men:
Eccl 5:8 If thou seest the oppression of the poor, and violent perverting of judgment and justice in a province, marvel not at the matter: for he that is higher than the highest regardeth; and there be higher than they.
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