Nigel Farage has asked why the government has selected a Labour peer to chair the national inquiry into grooming gangs.

Speaking to GB News Nigel Farage said:
“It’s taken a very, very long time, but at last, they found somebody who’s prepared to chair the grooming gang inquiry. They’ve chosen Baroness Longfield, who was a Children’s Commissioner for six years.

“Well, they have a chair. I’ve got some reservations about this, number one, this will all take up to three years, which may well be after the next general election.

“Plus, whatever her background as a Children’s Commissioner, why pick a Labour peer?

“I mean, that will appear to everybody like, effectively, you’re marking your own homework.

“And there’ll be questions about her time, I think, as Children’s Commissioner. Surely she must have received many, many, many complaints, concerns about grooming gangs.

“Either way, I wonder whether it was clever to announce that the victims panel is actually going to be scrapped when we’ve been told from the start that the testimony of victims was integral to the whole process.

“I guess it’ll all come to a head on Thursday, when the victims, currently on that panel, will meet with the Home Secretary.

“But tell you what, I don’t know. I worry we won’t perhaps get what we want out of this.”