Jess Phillips

Jess Phillips

Labour — Birmingham Yardley

Speaking in the House of Commons on 7 May 2025

Debate

Grooming Gangs

Contribution

I will absolutely protect my own in this. My own are the women in our country, who, for the last 14 years, have seen no efforts made. People say terrible things, and the Leader of the House was right to apologise. I wonder how many of those on the Opposition Front Bench asked the former Prime Minister to apologise for saying that looking into the lives of the girls we are talking about, through a statutory inquiry that had already happened, was spaffing money up the wall. Where was the outrage?

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