Downing Street Can’t Say If Starmer Has Even Watched Rape Gang Documentary

In today’s Lobby briefing hacks asked Starmer’s spokesman a series of questions about Commons leader Lucy Powell’s comments. Describing the Channel 4 documentary Groomed: A National Scandal as a ‘little trumpet’ and a ‘dogwhistle’…

Downing Street refused to say that Starmer was disappointed in the remarks, just that his “position is on the record” on rape gangs and that he is “determined to get justice.[…] Read the rest