It is not a "far right" issue for GB News viewers to be concerned about grooming gangs, Sir Keir Starmer has said.
The Prime Minister also said that he wanted the new national public inquiry into the rape gangs to investigate any alleged cover-ups by councillors, police and even MPs.
The Prime Minister accused politicians of jumping on a "far right bandwagon" in January when the calls for a national grooming gangs inquiry were being aired.
He then ordered a national inquiry after all after commissioning a rapid 'audit' of the scale of the problem from Baroness Casey of Blackstock.
Keir Starmer spoke to GB News while at the G7 summit in Canada
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Challenged at the G7 summit by GB News political editor Christopher Hope over the far right slur, he said: "No, no, no and I'm certainly not criticising your viewers."
But he added that "there's one thing that I find frustrating, it's politicians who had the opportunity in power to do something about it and did absolutely nothing."
He added: "I've been raising this issue for 15 years. I'm really glad that I'm the Prime Minister that's actually now put in place a National Inquiry, something which wasn't done under the last government."
Starmer added that he wanted the inquiry to investigate any cover-ups by public bodies like councillors, police and even MPs.
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Challenged at the G7 summit by GB News political editor Christopher Hope over the far right slur, he said: 'No, no, no and I'm certainly not criticising your viewers'
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He said: "I want that inquiry to go wherever it needs to go. Having set it up on a statutory footing it is my strong belief that the inquiry needs to go wherever it goes. There won't be any no go areas as far as I am concerned."
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