To the Commons, where Reform MP Lee Anderson has taken a pop at Labour over Britain’s grooming gang scandal. First blasting Home Office minister Jess Phillips for not backing a full national inquiry, Anderson went on to question whether she was ‘part of the cover up’. Then the Ashfield MP took to Twitter to slam the lefty lot for their ‘weak’ handling of the matter. ‘Labour MPs shouted “shame” at me today when I asked this question,’ he wrote scathingly. ‘Sorry, minister, but the shame is with you.’ Shots fired!
This afternoon Anderson described how ‘thousands of young, white British working class girls have been raped, tortured and abused by Pakistani grooming gangs’. Yet, the Reform politician argued, the Birmingham Yardley MP and her government are still not in favour of a full national inquiry into the scandal. ‘All I want to know is, Mr Speaker,’ the Ashfield politician continued, ‘is she part of the cover up?’
Jumping furiously to her feet, Phillips first told Anderson that his question ‘really doesn’t deserve a response’.
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