What is Labour’s case against a full, judge-led investigation into appalling ‘grooming gangs’ scandal and its causes?

Why no probe?

GIVEN how keen it has always been on public inquiries, we have to wonder why the Government now rejects one into the ­monstrous “grooming gangs” scandal.

The rape and abuse of thousands of girls by hundreds of mainly British-Asian perverts in multiple towns and cities not only destroyed those children’s lives but blights our nation.

When last in power Labour loved such probes.

In opposition too they demanded one over every scandal they thought might damage the Tories.

We suspect that chiefly motivated their clamour for the Covid Inquiry too.

A full public inquiry into the decades-long national scourge of paedophile rape gangs, let alone the one solely covering Oldham which the Government has refused, might prove deeply uncomfortable for Labour.

It would likely blame Left-wing politicians, council officials and police chiefs and their foolish paranoia over racism while perhaps also condemning Britain’s flawed approach to multiculturalism and the dangers of a hyper-liberalism which tolerates actual evil.

Some who turned a blind eye might potentially end up in jail.

The Tories are making hay with all this.

But they had 14 years for just such an inquiry and didn’t go ahead either.

What is Labour’s case against a full, judge-led investigation into this appalling national scandal and its causes?

Now fix it

EIGHT years ago The Sun called for a Royal Commission to reinvent the NHS.

We wanted it to secure cross-party support for a future which did not rely on just pumping in billions more each year and praying for improvement.

It didn’t happen. But we welcome Health Secretary Wes Streeting launching one into adult social care instead.

It could revolutionise that broken system and significantly ease NHS pressure by freeing up beds occupied by patients well enough to be discharged but unable to secure a care home place.

Good luck to Baroness Casey, leading the commission. But get on with it.

Voters are sick of Whitehall lethargy. They want results.

Poor decision

WERE any Labour MPs elected to hammer the poorest hardest? Of course not.

But that’s the result of the Treasury’s ill-considered cash grabs.

It’s not just stripping skint OAPs (along with the better-off) of their winter fuel payment.

It’s that the National Insurance hike on firms, plus the minimum wage rise, will make it far more costly to hire lower-paid staff from April, as think-tank analysis shows.

Labour thought the Budget was punishing business fatcats.

It was obvious what it would actually mean:

Fewer jobs and longer dole queues.