Nigel Farage appeared on LBC this morning (Image: LBC)
Reform UK leader said his party would be prepared to set up an unofficial inquiry into grooming gangs if the Government did not act within “a few weeks”.
Such an inquiry would not have statutory power to compel people to give evidence.
Mr Farage said: “I honestly believe that through the police, through social services, through the last days of the Labour Government, through the entirety of the last Conservative government, there has been a concerted attempt to play this down for fear of what it might do, for fear of being called racist.
“The irony is that the attacks themselves were racist. This was anti-white female racism; Of that, I have no doubt.”
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Mr Farage said he could raise the money to fund an inquiry, and although it would not have legal powers to compel witnesses to attend, there would be an outcry if anyone did not co-operate.
“I will have no difficulty in raising the money to do this, whatsoever. We’ll appoint independent ex-judges and experts,” he said.
“I won’t have the statutory powers but I tell you what, I think this would garner such massive public support that anybody asked to appear that didn’t appear would look terrible.”
MPs from Reform and the Conservative parties have demanded that Labour launch a national inquiry into grooming gangs.
The row over the issue erupted when took aim at Sir ‘s handling of the issue while director of public prosecutions.
The will tomorrow force Labour MPs to vote on a national inquiry in the Commons.