A LABOUR peer has been announced as the chair of the national inquiry into grooming gangs. Former children’s commissioner Anne Longfield (above) was announced as the lead of the inquiry announced by Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer in June this year following a damning report by Baroness Louise Casey who completed a rapid audit looking at the scale of grooming gangs across the country. Announcing the appointment in the House of Commons yesterday Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood

THE Police Federation has defended paying its CEO an eye watering more than twice the Prime Minister's salary, saying he has "resolved potentially catastrophic legal risks at a fraction of the potential liability." It came after the federatioin reluctantly confirmed CEO Mukund Krishna was paid a basic salary of £342,000 in 2024. Sir Keir Starmer gets about £166,000 a year. A federation spokesperson said: “We are delivering the professional leadership and financial stability

THE most senior civil servant in the Home Office was unable to confirm what the budget will be for the National Grooming Gangs Inquiry, or how many people will work on it, and could not commit to there being any meaningful update before Christmas. Dame Antonia Romeo (above), the Permanent Secretary for the Home Office, received a grilling from MPs on the Home Affairs Select Committee, about when the inquiry will be up and running. Robbie Moore, (below) Tory MP for Keighly an

A STAGGERING 262 prisoners were released in error in the year to the end of March 31 this year, the Ministry of Justice (MOJ) has said. A furter 91 have been released in error from April 1 to October 31 this year. The MOJ released details following a number of high profile releases in error this month, November 2025. An MOJ spokesperson said: "Examples of releases in error may include misplaced warrants for imprisonment or remand, recall notices not acted upon or sentence mis

THOUSANDS of suspects and criminals who would have been remanded or jailed will instead be "free in the community" after a new "Sentencing Bill" comes into effect next year, a police chief said. More prisoners will also be released early under the changes to free up prison spaces due to our bursting prison population. There will be an expected rise in reoffending rates by four to six percent, police chiefs estimate, that is around 360,000 more crimes a year on top of the 6.6 

RIGHT wing activist Tommy Robinson has been found not guilty of refusing to handover his mobile phone pin to police at the Channel Tunnel a day after he led a huge patriotic demo in London. Robinson was detained under the Terrorism Act because he turned up at the Channel Tunnel in a silver Bentley and bought his ticket "last minute" at the port a day after leading the demo on July 27 2024. Today at Westminster Magistrates' Court Robinson, real name Stephen Lennon, was aquitte

A SECOND candidate to chair the Government's national statutory inquiry into grooming gangs has pulled out of the running blaming "political point scoring." Former senior police officer Jim Gamble, who later led the Child Exploitation and Online Protection (CEOP) police command, withdrew after senior social worker Annie Hudson pulled out of the race to chair the inquiry, citing "media pressure" on Tuesday and four survivors resigned from a liaison panel. There had been criti

The outcome of the Tommy Robinson 'phone pin' trial will be on Tuesday, November 4, 2025 at 10am at Westminster Magistrates' Court. The judge wanted to hand it down on Tuesday, October 21, but was just told Robinson will be a guest of the Israeli Government then and until October 25, so it was rescheduled. read the full report of the trial here .

SHADOW Home Secretary Chris Philp is calling for the immigration statuses of all foreign suspects to be released once they have been...

RIGHT wing activist Tommy Robinson was refused entry to two South American countries in the space of 24 hours after he was deemed to be a...