Mims Davies

Mims Davies

Conservative — East Grinstead and Uckfield

Speaking in the House of Commons on 7 May 2025

Debate

Grooming Gangs

Contribution

As a child, Jade got a criminal record during her abuse and exploitation, and now she cannot attend her children’s school trips. Chantelle rightly said, “We are not the problem. The men are the problem.” Although there are plenty of good women on the Front Bench, I have to ask: are this Government simply more interested in protecting their own than staying true to their manifesto pledge? That pledge says, “We will use every…tool to target perpetrators”. Yet Labour is turning its back on that once again; you can hear it. The Leader of the House called this “dog whistle” politics on national radio. Why will the Minister and her Front-Bench colleagues not commit to delivering a proper, national, statutory public inquiry, and finally put victims first?

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