‘Local inquiries are not going to solve anything,’ says Nigel Farage

Well, the grooming gang row goes on today. The Home Secretary got up in the House of Commons and announced that the government will put £5million into local enquiries, with the backing of national government.They’ve also announced a national audit to be led by Baroness Louise Casey.But what was I think really interesting was in response to questions asked by members of Parliament on seven occasions, the Home Secretary was asked will these be statutory enquiries? What do I mean by that? I mean having the ability to say to somebody in social services or somebody in police or somebody in local government, you must come along and give evidence.And the answer seven times was no. So I’m beginning to think that what the government are really doing is just kicking the can down the road. We know the great British public, who, frankly, have been horrified to learn that in up to 50 different towns in this country, these mass rapes, gang rapes have been happening. 73 per cent in opinion polls say they want a national inquiry. The government isn’t going to give us one. Now, as you know, I’ve said if there was to be no inquiry at all, I’d call one.You almost think, in a way, they’ve done this to try and box me off a little bit, because I could call a national inquiry, but I wouldn’t have statutory powers either. I think this is a classic political fudge. I don’t believe myself this will actually solve anything.

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