Sir Keir Starmer has been told to "resign" over his handling of the grooming gangs scandal, with his U-turn on a national inquiry branded a "betrayal" by a former Conservative MP.
Speaking to GB News, ex-Tory representative Anna Firth told hosts Ben Leo and Ellie Costello that Starmer ordering a review by Baroness Casey was "disgraceful".
Delivering her scathing verdict on the Prime Minister's U-turn, Firth fumed: "The fact that Keir Starmer had to commission yet another report that we've all paid for with our tax money to tell us things that we already knew, I think, is absolutely disgraceful.
"He should have ordered this report six months ago. This is yet another monumental U-turn."
Former Conservative MP Anna Firth has called on Keir Starmer to 'resign' over his handling of the grooming gangs inquiry
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Heaping praise on the People's Channel for the consistent campaigning for action on rape gangs, lead by reporter Charlie Peters, Firth added: "This is a report which says definitively there should be a national inquiry, which will probably not be news or anything new to your viewers.
"And this channel is to be commended for saying consistently for months that we should have a national inquiry."
In a pointed attack on Starmer, Firth criticised his previous claims that any calls for an inquiry are "far-right", branding them "disgusting".
Firth stated: "It's a complete betrayal, in my opinion, of the victims who deserved this to happen earlier, and the fact that he banded people who were campaigning for this on a 'far-right bandwagon' is disgusting."
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Yvette Cooper outlined 12 'damning' findings of Baroness Casey's grooming gangs report on MondayParliament TVExpressing her outrage at Starmer's decision to now hold a national statutory inquiry, Firth called on the Prime Minister to "resign" over his latest U-turn.
Firth told GB News: "That is exactly the attitude of pushing things, refusing to actually look at all the details, covering things up, which has caused this problem in the first place. So, frankly, I think he should resign."
Hitting out at Starmer's absence in the publication of Casey's review to attend the G7 Summit in Canada, Firth continued: "He scuttled off to the G7 and let this break, and so he didn't actually have to face the flak.
"They had this report 10 days ago. No10 could have timed the release of this report on any day. Why on earth wasn't it released about 10 days ago?"
Firth told GB News that the handling is a 'complete betrayal' to the victims and survivors
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Heaping more criticism on the Prime Minister, Firth criticised Starmer's several U-turns and claimed he is a "weather vane" when it comes to decision making.
Firth told GB News: "They say that a good Prime Minister is a signpost, tells the country where he's taking the country, and a bad Prime Minister is a weather vane.
"And there's absolutely no doubt what Keir Starmer is, he is the biggest weather vane that we've seen."
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