It’s very unfair making Yardley MP Jess Phillips take responsibility for the grooming gangs inquiry especially as there’s no chance it will come to any conclusion that states the bleedin’ obvious.
That would be more than Jess’s job’s worth because she will be fighting not merely the grooming-gang victims but a large proportion of her own Birmingham electorate.
Jess has seen her majority fall from 16,574 in 2017 to a mere 693 last year after a campaign of fear and intimidation against her and her supporters.
Given the state of politics in Birmingham, it seems unlikely Jess could have been given a more exposed role than that of Minister for Safeguarding and Violence Against Women and Girls.
Quite why another grooming gangs inquiry is necessary is open to question. We all know the terrible truth. We all know nobody will do anything about it. We all know an inquiry will take ages, cost a fortune and change nothing.
And in the meantime Jess Phillips, a decent MP worthy of respect, will lose her seat to some violent non-entity.
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