On Saturday, Liverpool Walton Labour MP Dan Carden told The Liverpool Echo, external: “The public compassion for the victims, thousands of young British working-class girls and children, is real.
“The public call for justice must be heeded.”
Last week Labour’s Greater Manchester mayor Andy Burnham said he would back a “limited” national inquiry into child grooming gangs to compel people to give evidence so “those who may have charges to answer are held to account”.
He said a series of local reviews into abuse in Manchester, Rochdale and Oldham he commissioned were “limited” compared to what a public inquiry could achieve.
However, he was rebuffed by Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy who said the Jay inquiry, set up by Theresa May’s government, had taken evidence from thousands of victims and addressed the issues he had raised.
