37 m. ago MPs back bill to end criminal penalties for abortion in key vote

Parliament votes on biggest shake-up to reproductive rights in England and Wales in 60 yearsCasey says in the past government has talked relentlessly about the need for better data sharing between departments.But she says there is a need to consider making this mandatory.I was there when the tragedy of Soham happened. We knew at that point that if we had had better data sharing there’s a possibility that we might have saved those girls’ lives. There’s certaintly an absolute clarity that intelligence would have been much faster in either avoiding it or or actually finding that dreadful human being earlier.And we’ve known that forever onwards. And so I think there is also an issue that the Home Office can’t drag their feet on, looking at police intelligence systems, given we’ve living in the 21st century. Probably everbody in this room can connect within seconds. Yet we had Befordshire police finding a young boy that was being, in my mind trafficked to London. But the data intelligenc...

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1 hour ago Top New York official Brad Lander’s arrest is ‘fascism’, says mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani – US politics live

Arrest by masked federal agents at a New York immigration court draws immediate condemnationA memorial outside the Minnesota house chambers displays a photo of Melissa and Mark Hortman behind a table where people are dropping off flowers, notes, a hard hat, a plaid shirt. Signs in front of it read “in honor of our beloved Melissa”. On her desk, a photo and a bouquet of roses.On Monday afternoon, the skies darkened, spilling sheets of rain across the Minneapolis suburbs Melissa Hortman represented. Continue reading...

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2 h. ago Women being prosecuted under 19th century law passed by men, MP says, before vote on decriminalising abortion – UK politics live

Parliament to vote on decriminalising abortion in what would be biggest shake-up to reproductive rights in England and Wales in 60 yearsCasey says in the past government has talked relentlessly about the need for better data sharing between departments.But she says there is a need to consider making this mandatory.I was there when the tragedy of Soham happened. We knew at that point that if we had had better data sharing there’s a possibility that we might have saved those girls’ lives. There’s certaintly an absolute clarity that intelligence would have been much faster in either avoiding it or or actually finding that dreadful human being earlier.And we’ve known that forever onwards. And so I think there is also an issue that the Home Office can’t drag their feet on, looking at police intelligence systems, given we’ve living in the 21st century. Probably everbody in this room can connect within seconds. Yet we had Befordshire police finding a young boy that was being, in my mind tr...

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3 h. ago Andy Burnham's child sex abuse inquiry team 'resigned' after authorities 'lawyered up', MPs told

Baroness Louise Casey said that authorities in Greater Manchester were 'lawyering up' to fight over what data would be shared

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3 h. ago Starmer hits back at Badenoch over grooming scandal, claiming Tories did nothing

Sir Keir Starmer asked ‘why on earth’ Mrs Badenoch did not bring forward a duty for authorities to report child sexual exploitation in power.

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3 h. ago Starmer says he picked up Trump’s dropped papers to avoid security scare

UK prime minister says it ‘would not have been good’ for anyone else such as member of media to try to helpUK politics live – latest updatesKeir Starmer said he rushed to pick up papers dropped by Donald Trump at the G7 summit in Canada mainly to avoid anyone else stepping forward to do so and being tackled by the US president’s security team.Speaking to reporters in Kananaskis a day after Trump fumbled some of the documents about a UK-US trade deal, letting a sheaf of papers tumble to the ground, Starmer said he had little choice but to bend down and help out. Continue reading...

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3 h. ago Grooming gangs' attacks 'still rife' warns author of 'race cover

Baroness Louise Casey has demanded harsher laws and hundreds of abandoned cases to be re-opened and says there are huge gaps in how the cases are recorded

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3 h. ago MPs to debate proposals to decriminalise abortion – UK politics live

Parliament to vote on decriminalising abortion in what would be biggest shake-up to reproductive rights in England and Wales in 60 yearsCasey says in the past government has talked relentlessly about the need for better data sharing between departments.But she says there is a need to consider making this mandatory.I was there when the tragedy of Soham happened. We knew at that point that if we had had better data sharing there’s a possibility that we might have saved those girls’ lives. There’s certaintly an absolute clarity that intelligence would have been much faster in either avoiding it or or actually finding that dreadful human being earlier.And we’ve known that forever onwards. And so I think there is also an issue that the Home Office can’t drag their feet on, looking at police intelligence systems, given we’ve living in the 21st century. Probably everbody in this room can connect within seconds. Yet we had Befordshire police finding a young boy that was being, in my mind tr...

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4 h. ago Trump says he won’t call Minnesota governor after political shootings: ‘he’s a mess’ – US politics live

US president to break with traditional response to tragedies by not calling Minnesota governor Tim Walz in the wake of ‘politically motivated assassination’A memorial outside the Minnesota house chambers displays a photo of Melissa and Mark Hortman behind a table where people are dropping off flowers, notes, a hard hat, a plaid shirt. Signs in front of it read “in honor of our beloved Melissa”. On her desk, a photo and a bouquet of roses.On Monday afternoon, the skies darkened, spilling sheets of rain across the Minneapolis suburbs Melissa Hortman represented. Continue reading...

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4 h. ago Wales' First Minister says 'lessons need to be learned' over grooming gang abuse

The Conservative group leader in Wales said sexual exploitation of children had been 'happening right under our noses here in Wales'

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5 h. ago Kemi Badenoch insists she is ‘not doing politics’ on grooming gangs after Baroness Casey criticism

Baroness Louise Casey told the BBC she was ‘disappointed’ by the Opposition’s response to her review of the grooming gangs scandal

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5 h. ago Failure to collect ethnicity data on grooming gangs has been a ‘bloody disaster’, Baroness Casey fumes

The author of a damning report also hit out at Tory leader Kemi Badenoch, saying she was ‘disappointed’ by the Conservatives’ response to her review of the scandal

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5 h. ago Labour's lack of control over illegal immigration 'risks fuelling new grooming gang crisis' as report says non

Chris Philp said abuse of teenage girls was a 'border security issue' after a damning report said foreign nationals are involved in a 'significant proportion' of ongoing police investigations.

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7 h. ago Badenoch ‘not doing politics’ on grooming gangs as report author urges ‘calm’

Baroness Louise Casey told the BBC she was ‘disappointed’ by the Opposition’s response to her review of the grooming gangs scandal.

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7 h. ago Grooming gangs report's disturbing reality highlighted by two word demand

Baroness Louise Casey, who led a harrowing review into sexual abuse of children by groups of men in England and Wales called for a 'national reset' in the way children are treated

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8 h. ago Ethnicity of people in grooming gangs was 'shied away from', Louise Casey report says

"The appalling lack of data on ethnicity in crime recording alone is a major failing over the last decade or more. Questions about ethnicity have been asked but dodged for years"

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8 h. ago Louise Casey criticises ‘public irresponsibility’ of officials over grooming gang race data – UK politics live

Casey tells MPs she was surprised to be asked to re-engage with issue 10 years after her Rotherham report but says it was right decisionGrooming gangs in UK ‘thrived in culture of ignorance’Casey says in the past government has talked relentlessly about the need for better data sharing between departments.But she says there is a need to consider making this mandatory.I was there when the tragedy of Soham happened. We knew at that point that if we had had better data sharing there’s a possibility that we might have saved those girls’ lives. There’s certaintly an absolute clarity that intelligence would have been much faster in either avoiding it or or actually finding that dreadful human being earlier.And we’ve known that forever onwards. And so I think there is also an issue that the Home Office can’t drag their feet on, looking at police intelligence systems, given we’ve living in the 21st century. Probably everbody in this room can connect within seconds. Yet we had Befordshire po...

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9 h. ago Trump leaves G7 early for something ‘bigger than a ceasefire’ amid Iran

US president denies claims from France’s Macron that he is working on a truce after earlier urging Tehran residents to flee from Iranian capitalCeasefire offer has been made, says Macron, as Trump leaves G7 earlyJust to recap on events, Donald Trump and UK prime minister Keir Starmer signed off a UK-US trade deal at the G7 summit n Kananaskis, Alberta, on Monday.The US president said Britain would have protection against future tariffs “because I like them”. Continue reading...

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9 h. ago Grooming gang victim reveals abusers' evil tactics to terrify her into silence as she blasts authorities for failing to save her

Fiona Goddard was raped and abused by at least 50 men in Bradford from the age of 14. The mother had been groomed by a gang of Asian men in 2008 when she ran with another girl from her care home.

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9 h. ago Asylum seekers and foreign nationals are behind 'significant proportion' of child sex grooming gang cases, Casey report warns

The long-awaited review by Whitehall troubleshooter Louise Casey was released yesterday after being commissioned at the start of the year.

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