Outgoing British Prime Minister Keir Starmer had formerly headed the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) which had offered a pass to the Muslim sex grooming gangs who had trafficked and raped as many as 250,000 women and girls in the UK.
Starmer had initially refused to launch a national inquiry into the grooming gangs, claiming that they were merely a local matter, before finally giving in to political pressure.
“In a number of cases presented to us, particularly in cases involving groups, there’s clearly an issue of ethnicity that has to be understood and addressed,” Starmer awkwardly admitted.
“The CPS, under his leadership, had dropped a case against a rape gang despite overwhelming evidence of their guilt. Following the CPS’s decision to abandon the case, Greater Manchester Police (GMP) dropped its wider investigation into Asian grooming gangs in the area, and the abuse continued,” The Telegraph revealed.
“It’s absolutely vile. How can he stand there and say he did a good job? They had DNA, concrete evidence, and still didn’t get charged with rape,” one of the victims blasted Starmer.
When Starmer finally agreed to a national inquiry into Muslim sex grooming gangs, multiple victims threatened to resign with one of the women warning about a “push to widen the remit of the National Inquiry in ways that downplay the racial and religious motivations behind our abuse”.
When PM Starmer was ousted because the Labour government’s radical policies and the mass invasion by Muslim migrants had made him historically unpopular, he was coincidentally replaced by yet another Labour political figure with connections to the Muslim sex grooming cases.
Prime Minister Andy Burnham had formerly served as the mayor of Greater Manchester, a city with a large Pakistani Muslim population that was at the epicenter of the grooming gangs. After the grooming gang scandal went national, Burnham tried to argue that he had led the way, but in reality had resisted any serious inquiry until the BBC aired the ‘Three Girls’ documentary.
The inquiry that Starmer tried to block had been centered on the Muslim sex grooming gangs in Oldham, in Manchester, where there are now over 1,000 cases being investigated. In Rochdale, also in Greater Manchester, young girls were raped, passed around and trafficked by Muslim men with one victim saying that she had been raped over 100 times since she was 12 years old.
Even though the events dated back to the oughts and there had been trials in 2012, Burnham claimed to have known nothing about it until he watched the 2017 documentary.
“We’d seen the BBC programme The Three Girls, and I acted immediately on it, particularly after I’d heard an interview with Maggie Oliver about a police investigation in Manchester, Operation Augusta, which had been closed down,” Burnham claimed.
But Operation Augusta was a 2004 investigation, and Burnham had served as the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Home Affairs right after Operation Augusta, at a time when victims and their parents were writing to the Home Office clamoring for justice.
Burnham claimed that he only found out about the outrage after the 2017 BBC documentary and an interview with Maggie Oliver, a key police whistleblower, and immediately launched an inquiry that got results. In reality, the inquiry failed to hold anyone in authority accountable and avoided exploring any links to Labour politicians including Rotherham Councilman Jahangir Akhtar, accused by some reports of raping one of the victims, who had achieved political power through Labour’s Baron Nazir Ahmed: who was later convicted of the attempted rape of a girl and of a serious sexual assault upon a boy under 13. His two brothers, both named Mohammed, were charged but not convicted of alleged sexual assaults against a boy under the age of 11 and a boy under the age of 8.
But Burnham had been campaigning based on that inquiry and used it to pave his path to replacing Starmer, claiming that he had gotten results where other politicians had failed to act.
But how did that inquiry really go?
A Burnham promotional timeline boasts that he had “commissioned an independent review into historic child sexual exploitation (CSE) cases in Greater Manchester to be led by nationally recognised independent experts, Malcolm Newsam and Gary Ridgway.” What it does not mention is that the six year inequity by Newsam and Ridgway was stonewalled by the police and local authorities and denied access to documents that might have made the difference.
Burnham had failed to intervene, provide support or stay on the case.
Maggie Oliver, the police whistleblower, recently charged that, “Andy Burnham was very open about talking about the failures of the past which everybody already knew by that time. The fourth part of those inquiries was meant to be an assurance review. That was published last year. That was meant to look at what had happened between 2019 up until 2025. What happened in that, in my experience, was actually a cover-up. It was a paper exercise. What it led to was the resignation of the two independent reviewers who had spent six years scrutinising Greater Manchester Police. Instead HMIC came and they did not speak to a single victim or a single survivor who had been caught in the last seven years of working with Greater Manchester Police.”
“When it comes to leadership and courage and gripping what is going on now, unfortunately he turned away. We missed a huge opportunity to bring changes that are needed,” she said of Burnham.
Burnham complained about what he called the “distasteful politicisation” of the trafficking of young girls and bragged about backing a national inquiry, but his proposed inquiry was only a “limited” one, and in a mayoral question and answer session, he declared, “I 100 per cent will stand by what I’ve done.”
“Greater Manchester did not look in the other direction. We looked directly at this issue, we held a complete mirror up to ourselves,” Burnham falsely claimed. “I see the stuff online and it’s actually designed to create hate, and they’re trying to pull everyone apart.”
When put to the test, Burnham defaulted back to claiming racism and continuing the cover-up. Much as PM Keir Starmer had before him.
What are the odds that the last two prime ministers of the UK were both in a position of power to cover up the Muslim sex grooming gangs? But some might say that’s why they were chosen.
The seemingly improbable coincidence of PM Keir Starmer and PM Andy Burnham both being in positions that allowed them to have knowledge of the depredations of the Muslim sex grooming gangs, to do nothing about them, to play ‘reformers,’ and to fail to tackle the institutional corruption, testifies to how embedded the gangs were in the circles of political power, especially in Labour which is heavily dependent on Pakistani Muslim bloc votes.
Did covering up the crimes of the Muslim sex grooming gangs put Starmer and Burnham on a path to power? There is no way to know for sure, but the coincidence is too much to ignore.