Farage Vows 300 Million Boost for Anti-Grooming Gang Police
Reform UK leader Nigel Farage pledged to declassify all state files on grooming gangs and quadruple funding for investigations if his party forms a government.
The Reform UK leader declared on Saturday that the grooming gang crisis represents the greatest failure of the British state in the nation’s history, demanding firm action to address the institutional negligence that occurred predominantly in Labour-controlled areas.
Nigel Farage wrote on X that public bodies and politicians actively facilitated the mass rape and sexual exploitation of children, with predominantly white working-class girls brutalised by criminal gangs composed disproportionately of men of Pakistani nationality or heritage.
Farage stated that inquiries and words have proven insufficient, arguing that state-enabled child sexual exploitation continues today in areas including Wigan and Makerfield. He accused politicians like Andy Burnham, local authorities, police forces, and media outlets of engaging in a conspiracy of silence driven by institutional avoidance in the name of political correctness.
The Brexit architect outlined that a Reform government would release all files held by public bodies relating to grooming gangs dating back 40 years within the first 100 days of taking office, as Breitbart News reports.
Farage also committed to increasing funding for the National Crime Agency taskforce against grooming gangs from £100 million to £400 million annually. This quadrupled budget would enable the NCA to adequately investigate not only perpetrators but also complicit police officers, social workers and politicians who enabled the abuse.
Reform UK appears set to make this issue a central campaign theme in the special by-election scheduled for June 18th in Makerfield, where Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham is running for parliament after anti-conservative activist Josh Simons stood down. Burnham reportedly aims to challenge Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer for control of the Labour Party and Downing Street.
Burnham has faced sustained criticism over his handling of grooming gangs, with former Manchester police detective turned whistleblower Maggie Oliver accusing the mayor of engaging in a cover-up of child sex abuse and failures to protect young girls during his nearly decade-long tenure.
This week, Reform Shadow Home Secretary Zia Yusuf told the Daily Mail that Burnham seeks to use the very communities he betrayed to catapult himself to power. Yusuf stated that Burnham has had the power to bring perpetrators and enablers to justice but turned away from victims in the words of Maggie Oliver.
Yusuf added that Burnham spurned opportunities to do what was necessary time and again, leaving thousands of survivors rightly furious, including those in the Makerfield constituency.
A spokesman for Burnham responded that the mayor has always been clear these young women were seriously harmed and appallingly failed by institutions meant to protect them. The spokesman claimed that within days of taking office, Burnham set in motion an inquiry that vindicated whistleblowers, exposed institutional cover-ups, and led to arrests and convictions of perpetrators who would otherwise have walked free.
With information from Breitbart News
