The government’s national inquiry into grooming gangs has been accused of “descending into chaos”, with Home Office minister Jess Phillips being called a “liar” for disputing allegations that the inquiry is being diluted.\u00a0<\/p>\n
It comes after three survivors resigned from the inquiry’s liaison panel, while a frontrunner to chair it has also pulled out of the process.<\/p>\n
Fiona Goddard and Ellie Reynolds, two prominent survivors, resigned from the panel<\/a> over the last 48 hours, expressing concerns about how the process was being handled.<\/p>\n A third, who goes by the name of Elizabeth – which is not her real name – followed this afternoon.<\/p>\n Read more: Some of their fears centred around the perceived prospect of the inquiry being diluted by broadening its scope beyond group-based sexual abuse, and pushes for it to have a regional focus rather than it being truly national.<\/p>\n Ms Phillips, the Home Office minister, said this was “untrue”.<\/p>\n Ms Goddard responded to say: “This is a lie.”<\/p>\n
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