![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/13092811-1024x683.jpg\")
Elon Musk, owner of the X platform, who at the time was a key ally of Donald Trump, spent days in January attacking Keir Starmer over his handling of the abuse scandal. | Pool Photo by Francis Chung via EPA<\/p>\nAt the time Starmer hit out at political opponents, and took aim at the Conservatives who he said had \u201csat in government for many years\u201d and were now \u201ccalling for inquiries because they want to jump on a bandwagon of the far right.\u201d<\/p>\n
Elon Musk, owner of the X platform, who at the time was a key ally of Donald Trump, spent days in January attacking Keir Starmer over his handling of the abuse scandal. | Pool Photo by Francis Chung via EPA<\/p>\n
On Monday, Cooper issued an \u201cunequivocal\u201d apology to victims for their \u201cunimaginable pain and suffering,\u201d and for the \u201cfailure of our country\u2019s institutions through decades to prevent that harm and keep you safe.\u201d<\/p>\n
The findings had \u201cidentified a deep-rooted failure to treat children as children, a continued failure to protect children and teenage girls from rape, from exploitation and serious violence and from the scars that last a lifetime,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n
Accepting a raft of recommendations from Casey, Cooper said: \u201cWe have lost more than a decade. That must end now.\u201d<\/p>\n
Asylum-seekers pursued<\/p>\n
Immigration enforcement would also \u201cimmediately pursue\u201d suspects of abuse who are asylum-seekers, Cooper said.<\/p>\n
In a potentially incendiary passage of her report, Casey said a significant proportion of live police operations into grooming gangs, which could not be included in the report for fear of prejudicing future court proceedings , appeared to \u201cinvolve suspects who are non-UK nationals and\/or who are claiming asylum in the UK.\u201d<\/p>\n
In the Commons, Cooper said \u201cthose who groom children or who commit sexual offenses will not be granted asylum in the U.K.,\u201d citing planned changes in the law to exclude anyone convicted of a sexual offense from being given refugee status.<\/p>\n
Speaking in the House of Commons on Monday, Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch said the ruling Labour Party had changed its position only after \u201cmonths of pressure,\u201d including from her own team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"At the time Starmer hit out at political opponents, and took aim at the Conservatives who he said…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":189535,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[5108,748,30,32,295,393,1105,4884,40,807,1198,384,1144,6658,712,16,15,1764,5113],"class_list":{"0":"post-189534","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uk","8":"category-united-kingdom","9":"tag-asylum","10":"tag-britain","11":"tag-courts","12":"tag-donald-trump","13":"tag-elon-musk","14":"tag-england","15":"tag-far-right","16":"tag-great-britain","17":"tag-immigration","18":"tag-keir-starmer","19":"tag-kemi-badenoch","20":"tag-nigel-farage","21":"tag-northern-ireland","22":"tag-refugees","23":"tag-scotland","24":"tag-uk","25":"tag-united-kingdom","26":"tag-wales","27":"tag-yvette-cooper"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114694253682676072","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189534\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/189535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}