Alistair Strathern

Alistair Strathern

Labour — Hitchin

Speaking in the House of Commons on 4 September 2025

Debate

Grooming Gangs

Contribution

Alongside the failure to go after some of the evil perpetrators of these crimes without fear or favour, another devastating failing of the grooming gangs scandal was the criminalisation of some of the young people involved by a system that all too often failed to see them as children and victims first. How is the Solicitor General working with colleagues right across Government to ensure that we can disregard those convictions as quickly as possible, and so that such key failings cannot happen again?

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