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Jess Phillips appears to have signalled a big u-turn on grooming gang inquiries, suggesting "nothing is off the table" less than a week after she ruled one out.
Speaking on Sky News' Electoral Dysfunction podcast this morning, the safeguarding minister at the Home Office said she may consider a new inquiry if victims tell her it's what they want.
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She also suggested she doesn't need another inquiry to know some people involved in the cover-up of horrific sex crimes against children should be sent to prison.
She told Sky's Beth Rigby: "Nothing is off the table. Nothing is off the table."
"If the victims come forward to me in this victims panel that I will make, and they say 'actually we think there needs to be a national inquiry into this', I'll listen to them."
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Jess Phillips suggested she may be open to a u-turn (Image: Getty)
However she blasted: "I'm not going to - I refuse - to allow years of experience in safeguarding, basing what I know on evidence, I refuse to make government decisions on the basis of a row".
Last night Ms Phillips suggested that Elon Musk's recent claims against her on X were compromising her own safety.
It suggests a u-turn by the senior Home Office minister, who six days ago rejected calls by Oldham Council for an independent government review.
Her letter, published by GB News, said it is for the council "alone to decide to commission an inquiry into child sexual exploitation locally, rather than for the government to intervene".
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Last night she was blasted by a victim of the grooming scandal from Oldham, who described Ms Phillips' attitude as "infuriating".
'Sam' blasted: "It's infuriating to think a person who has no knowledge of what it's like in Oldham and has never met one of us survivors in real life can make these decisions."
Jess Phillips has been at the heart of the recent child abuse row with Elon Musk, after he branded her a “rape genocide apologist”.
Ms Phillips hit back last night, accusing the Tesla billionaire of ‘knowing nothing’.
However she confessed her personal security has been stepped up as a result of the spat.
She told ITV: “It’s ridiculous, isn’t it? The things that he’s saying are so ridiculous as to initially make me just go, what?
“But then you wake up with the realisation that that’s millions of people that he has said that to, and you feel immediately like this is going to turn my world upside down and I have to try and limit for how long that is the case.
“But my immediate thought was like just, it’s sort of like, what a joke. And then the realisation of what this is probably going to mean for you.”
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The Tories are hoping to force a vote on grooming gangs this afternoon, by amending Labour’s educational reform and child safety bill.
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In a video message, Kemi Badenoch said “It’s time to get justice for the victims of the rape gangs”.
The Tory leader accused Sir Keir of “trying to sweep [the scandal] under the rug”.
“Keir Starmer thinks that calling for a national inquiry makes you part of a far-right bandwagon. So if the Government won’t hold an inquiry we’ll force a vote in parliament.”