‘We cannot have more ministers gaslighting the British people’, says Suella Braverman
JESS Phillips should resign as she has lost the confidence of grooming gang survivors by gaslighting them, according to former Home Secretary Suella Braverman.
Asked why she thinks Phillips should go, Braverman told GB News Political Editor Christopher Hope: “We cannot afford to waste more time, and we cannot have more ministers gaslighting the British people and the victims and the survivors.
“We need an inquiry now. We need to get to the bottom of the truth, and we need justice for the victims.
“Jess Phillips having lost the confidence of, I think four survivors who have now resigned from the panel in the last few days, is a damning reflection of her oversight of this process. They have now lost the candidates to chair the inquiry.
“They’re saying it’s going to be taken in-house. They’re basically moving the deck chairs around while the Titanic is sinking.”
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She added: “They just want justice. And you know, my government didn’t provide justice sufficiently for them, but they do need it.
“Now, one of the survivors has said that just Phillips was lying, and it looks like a cover up of the cover up. They don’t want to talk about the ethnicity of the perpetrators, which is an absolutely integral feature of the whole scandal.”
Asked who should chair the inquiry she said: “I think it should be someone who is outside of the government machine, potentially a judge, because we’ve seen that ministers have failed.
“The arms of the state have failed. The Home Office has failed, the police have failed, social workers have failed. And so we do need someone who is outside of that machinery to bring a fresh pair of eyes and clean hands to the whole situation, and importantly, someone who will command confidence amongst the victims and survivors.”
On small boat arrivals today passing the number for the whole of last year, she said: “The Rwanda plan is effectively being used to varying degrees by the US.
“The very homes that I went to visit when I was Home Secretary in Rwanda, which were being constructed British taxpayer money, planned to be used by asylum seekers that we were planning to remove and deport to Rwanda, are now being used to house illegal migrants or people who are being deported from the US, because President Trump has seen some value in the scheme.
“Now, if it’s good enough for the Americans, I think it should be good enough for Starmer.”
