It is time for Parliament to “step up” and intervene in the grooming gang scandal, Nigel Farage has said.
The Reform UK leader said he would be speaking to Commons Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle and would write to the Home Affairs Select Committee about Parliament using its “extraordinary powers” to investigate the grooming gangs scandal.
He suggested both the House of Lords and the House of Commons could be involved in a “commission”.
Mr Farage said: “I am saying, here is the most enormous opportunity for Parliament, and indeed for this Government, to restore some public trust in the institution and those that currently inhabit it on an issue that has been gnawing away at our public consciences for well over a decade.
"I will be with my colleagues meeting the Speaker this evening, I will put these points to him.
"I know that he himself is very keen to re-establish Parliament at the centre of our national debate in this country.
"I will tomorrow write to Dame Karen Bradley, the chair of the Home Affairs committee, suggesting very quickly a sub-committee is set up.
"The advantages of this - the first one is it can be done incredibly quickly.
"The second of this, is it will take place in what we still know as the mother of Parliaments and perhaps re-establish some trust in the institution and it will happen in the full glare of the media and it won't take years to complete."
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