Keir Starmer, Labour minister Jess Phillips, and the Labour Party are not serious about delivering truth and justice to the victims of the Pakistani rape gangs. This is the only conclusion one can draw after the events of the last week.

The Labour Party, the party that had to be dragged kicking and screaming into committing to a national inquiry to begin with, and Keir Starmer, the prime minister who less than a year ago derided all those who called for an inquiry into the mass rape of white working-class children as ‘jumping on the bandwagon of the far-right’, have never really wanted to prioritise the worst scandal in British history.

More interested in votes from Labour’s Muslim constituents than the pursuit of truth, more influenced by a ‘progressive’ ideology that presents minorities as good and majorities as bad, when it comes to Keir Starmer, as The Times pointed out this week, ‘a palpable sense has remained that he has never fully grasped why [an inquiry] is necessary’.

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And now, as we’ve seen in Labour’s cack-handed approach to managing the inquiry this week, a refusal by the Labour government to get its arms around the issue in the way it would were it to involve one of their favoured minority groups.

I mean, seriously, could you imagine the Labour Party responding to the scandal in all these ways were this to involve highly organised gangs of white men targeting vulnerable Muslim children?

Could you imagine how quickly Labour would act, how it would instantly remove any and every obstacle and barrier to finding those victims the truth and justice they deserve?

Instead, by dragging their heels and showing the same indifference toward the rape gang scandal as politicians showed toward the issue for decades, Keir Starmer and the Labour Party have now, clearly, lost the confidence and trust of the most important people of all –the victims.