{"id":572060,"date":"2025-11-15T13:08:22","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T13:08:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/572060\/"},"modified":"2025-11-15T13:08:22","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T13:08:22","slug":"grooming-gangs-sadiq-khan-blasted-over-dodging-grilling-on-rape-gangs-in-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/572060\/","title":{"rendered":"Grooming gangs: Sadiq Khan blasted over dodging grilling on rape gangs in London"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">Sir Sadiq Khan has been blasted as a &#8220;damn disgrace&#8221; in a blistering attack led by the leader of the City Hall Conservatives Susan Hall.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking with GB News&#8217; Matt Goodwin, Ms Hall directed her fury at the Labour mayor over his treatment of the grooming gangs scandal. <\/p>\n<p>The Tory, who has consistently brought up the issue in the Capital&#8217;s debating chamber, accused Sir Sadiq of ignoring the plight of young girls and boys. <\/p>\n<p>When asked why she believes he is doing so, she simply answered: &#8220;Nobody knows. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I cannot understand when I first asked him in January, do we have rape gangs in London? And of course, I assume the answer was yes. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You can&#8217;t have nine million people in the city and not have the same as going on the rest of the country.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Last month, the Metropolitan Police announced they would re-investigate 9,000 child sex abuse cases, informing the mayor alleged grooming gang and child exploitation cases from the past 15 years will make up the probe.<\/p>\n<p>The review partly makes up Operation Beaconport, which is a national project to shed light on previous failures to combat group-based child sexual exploitation. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"2453c\" data-rm-shortcode-id=\"bb9833cbf828b8a392b047be20c38b0b\" data-rm-shortcode-name=\"rebelmouse-image\" class=\"rm-shortcode rm-lazyloadable-image \" lazy-loadable=\"true\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%201200%20800'%3E%3C\/svg%3E\" data-runner-src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/sir-sadiq-khan-susan-hall.png\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" alt=\"Sir Sadiq Khan; Susan Hall\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Ms Hall took aim at the London mayor in GB News<\/p>\n<p> | <\/p>\n<p>PA\/GB NEWS<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, police chief commissioner Sir Mark Rowley informed the London Assembly that his force had reviewed 2,200 of the 9,000 cases and had revealed approximately 1,200 remained in scope. <\/p>\n<p>He forecast that the number would fall further as the investigation progresses, leaving &#8220;maybe 2,000 or 3,000 cases&#8221; to be re-assessed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Regardless of ethnicity or anything else, the fact that young girls and sometimes young boys are being abused in such a horrific way, it needs to be investigated,&#8221; Ms Hall insisted.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And as mayor of our city, he&#8217;s an absolute damn disgrace.<\/p>\n<p>                LATEST FROM SIR SADIQ KHAN&#8217;S LONDON:<\/p>\n<p>        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"c3cf1\" data-rm-shortcode-id=\"e06150e37a38ef5d2f6d665b74a5c3c3\" data-rm-shortcode-name=\"rebelmouse-image\" class=\"rm-shortcode rm-lazyloadable-image \" lazy-loadable=\"true\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%203000%202000'%3E%3C\/svg%3E\" data-runner-src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/ellie-reynolds-nigel-farage.jpg\" width=\"3000\" height=\"2000\" alt=\"Ellie Reynolds; Nigel Farage\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Mr Farage spoke alongside grooming gangs survivor Ellie Reynolds<\/p>\n<p> | <\/p>\n<p>PA<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I asked him on Thursday in the meeting if he would apologise to these girls who saw you pretend you didn&#8217;t even know what these gangs were.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Of course, he wouldn&#8217;t answer, wouldn&#8217;t do anything, just talked about people up north and he felt sorry for them.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He wouldn&#8217;t answer. He wouldn&#8217;t say that he was sorry.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Back in January, the Tory leader asked Sir Sadiq nine times if there were rape gangs operating, either presently or historically, in London.<\/p>\n<p>But he simply insisted that he was &#8220;not clear what she means&#8221; and, following clarification on the question by Ms Hall with specific reference to the rape gangs in Rotherham and Bradford, the Labour mayor claimed he was &#8220;none the wiser&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Ms Hall&#8217;s demands have chimed with those of Reform chief Nigel Farage, who called for a parliament-led committee to investigate the true extent of the scandal in the city. <\/p>\n<p>Addressing a jam-packed press conference in Westminster in October, Mr Farage declared that Sir Sadiq had &#8220;failed grooming gang victims&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>He said: &#8220;He has been denying that there&#8217;s grooming going on in London. The Met have been denying that grooming is going on in London.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He said identifying such groups in the capital was more complex than in smaller towns and cities.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Maybe London is the last great grooming scandal to be uncovered, and it looks like we&#8217;re very close to that.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sir Sadiq Khan has been blasted as a &#8220;damn disgrace&#8221; in a blistering attack led by the leader&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":572061,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7757],"tags":[113921,748,393,4884,257,12,285,14252,16,3106,15,6225],"class_list":{"0":"post-572060","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-london","8":"tag-across-the-uk","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-london","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-politics","15":"tag-sadiq-khan","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-uk-politics","18":"tag-united-kingdom","19":"tag-video-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115553874924062765","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572060","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=572060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572060\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/572061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=572060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=572060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=572060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}