Labour MP Barry Gardiner and his Chinese take-out

Corruption Level: 10

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Labour MP Barry Gardiner denied that any colleagues were put at risk by his relationship with Chinese 'agent' Christine Lee - and refused to say whether he regretted it.

The former Labour frontbencher left his £900,000 semi-detached house in Wembley, north west London, but refused to answer a number of important questions before quickly darting to his car and driving off to work.

MI5 accused Labour donor Christine Lee of channelling cash from Beijing to influence parliament as it publicly warned MPs and peers to avoid her. When asked if the relationship had put any colleagues at threat, Gardiner said "I'm quite confident that nothing I have done has put any of my colleagues at jeopardy."

He refused to say whether he regretted it or whether Lee's son, Daniel Wilkes, who worked for him as diary manager, was the most suitable person for the job. He also refused to comment when pressed on the seriousness of the MI5 warning which was issued earlier to MPs. He briefly said he had already made a public statement before quickly going to his car, using his House of Commons pass to wipe the windscreen, before leaving for work.

The Chinese lawyer has donated nearly £700,000 to the Labour Party, mostly through the office of Corbynista MP Barry Gardiner, who until confronted by the Security Services yesterday, employed her son.

Lib Dem leader Ed Davey also accepted a £5,000 donation from Lee's law firm while in the Cabinet, and Theresa May handed her a peace prize - which was later rescinded.

Lee had been snapped with ex-Tory PM David Cameron, former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn and his then deputy Tom Watson but was later exposed as an agent of the Chinese Communist Party. Tensions between the UK and China have been stretched recently by the superpower's Covid lies, dire human rights abuses and escalating espionage attacks.

PM Boris Johnson warned late last year that China was never going to evolve towards being a free market democracy. And in a dramatic hardening of relations with Beijing, MI5 publicly blew the whistle on the suspected agent after years of investigation of her activities in Westminster. In an extremely rare move, the Security Service issued an alert and picture of Lee, accusing her of "facilitating financial donations to serving and aspiring politicians".

Lee, who has also been snapped shaking hands with China's leader Xi Jinping, has been a long-time funder of Mr Gardiner's office through her law firm Christine Lee & Co, which also works for the Chinese Embassy in London. Since 2005, she had donated £675,586.88 to either Mr Gardiner's office or local labour parties. Ahead of the 2019 election, she handed the central party a £5,000 cash donation. She mainly began funding Mr Gardiner in September 2015, soon after the Brent North MP became shadow minister for energy.

That included £182,284 to pay the wages of two of Mr Gardiner's Westminster aides - one of whom was Lee's son, Daniel Wilkes. Shame-faced Gardiner claimed he had not discussed policy with Lee in great detail but had spoken to her this week.

Pressed on whether he knew what was coming from MI5, he replied "Absolutely not. The first I heard of it was today." adding "What we spoke about earlier this week was actually the situation of my parents-in-law, who are elderly and ill. She had expressed concern as to their well-being and that's what we spoke about."

He said Lee's son resigned earlier that day and had no knowledge of his mother's activities. But the Interference Alert sent to MPs and Peers by the Security Service warned that Lee had been attempting to influence politicians from across the political divide. The warning said she had been "engaged in political interference activities on behalf of the Chinese Communist Party, engaging with Members here at Parliament and associated political entities".

It also said she has acted covertly in co-ordination with the United Front Work Department of the Chinese Communist Party.

Commons Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle told MPs "This facilitation was done covertly to mask the origins of the payments."

Home Secretary Priti Patel said "Forthcoming measures to counter these kind of threats will build on the robust safeguards already in place, making our country even harder for states to conduct hostile activity in." Ex-Tory leader Iain Duncan Smith, who has been sanctioned by China, said he feared MPs' offices had been compromised.

Tory MP Bob Seely said "It's clearly serious that there appear to be actual agents of a foreign, adversarial power in Parliament."

Last night, Mr Gardiner said he had been "liaising with our Security Services for a number of years about Christine Lee and they have always known, and been made fully aware by me, of her engagement with my office and the donations she made".

He added "Steps were taken to ensure Christine Lee had no role in either the appointment or management of those researchers. They are also aware I have not benefited personally from those donations in any way. She ceased funding any workers in my office in June 2020." adding "All the donations were properly reported in the register of members' interests and their source verified at the time."

Lib Dem leader Sir Ed Davey received a £5,000 donation from Ms Lee in 2013 when he was Energy Secretary in the coalition. A spokesman for Sir Ed said it was "reported properly and all rules and guidance was followed".

Outcome:

No MPs are suspected of criminality. Lee has not been arrested but is under investigation. She is believed to still be in the UK.

Despite huge public support, these MPs voted against having an independent inquiry into the massive grooming gang scandal that has been running since the 1980's, and is still an issue today. It is feared that the Labour party are running scared as the gangs were able to operate free from fear of police action as the grooming took place in predominantly Labour controlled areas.

We will not go into specifics here, as we only want to high-light those who opposed the enquiry, as the full information is widely available via the internet if your desire to know the true scale of the grooming gangs, and how the police, social workers, councillors, and even MPs are implicated in the rape of these girls.and you need to find out the details for yourself.

The full list:

Jack Abbott (Labour - Ipswich)
Debbie Abrahams (Labour - Oldham East and Saddleworth)
Shockat Adam (Independent - Leicester South)
Zubir Ahmed (Labour - Glasgow South West)
Luke Akehurst (Labour - North Durham)
Sadik Al-Hassan (Labour - North Somerset)
Bayo Alaba (Labour - Southend East and Rochford)
Dan Aldridge (Labour - Weston-super-Mare)
Heidi Alexander (Labour - Swindon South)
Douglas Alexander (Labour - Lothian East)
Rushanara Ali (Labour - Bethnal Green and Stepney)
Tahir Ali (Labour - Birmingham Hall Green and Moseley)
Rosena Allin-Khan (Labour - Tooting)
Mike Amesbury (Independent - Runcorn and Helsby)
Callum Anderson (Labour - Buckingham and Bletchley)
Fleur Anderson (Labour - Putney)
Tonia Antoniazzi (Labour - Gower)
Scott Arthur (Labour - Edinburgh South West)
Jess Asato (Labour - Lowestoft)
James Asser (Labour - West Ham and Beckton)
Jas Athwal (Labour - Ilford South)
Catherine Atkinson (Labour - Derby North)
Lewis Atkinson (Labour - Sunderland Central)
Calvin Bailey (Labour - Leyton and Wanstead)
Olivia Bailey (Labour - Reading West and Mid Berkshire)
David Baines (Labour - St Helens North)
Alex Baker (Labour - Aldershot)
Richard Baker (Labour - Glenrothes and Mid Fife)
Alex Ballinger (Labour - Halesowen)
Antonia Bance (Labour - Tipton and Wednesbury)
Lee Barron (Labour - Corby and East Northamptonshire)
Alex Barros-Curtis (Labour - Cardiff West)
Johanna Baxter (Labour - Paisley and Renfrewshire South)
Danny Beales (Labour - Uxbridge and South Ruislip)
Lorraine Beavers (Labour - Blackpool North and Fleetwood)
Apsana Begum (Independent - Poplar and Limehouse)
Torsten Bell (Labour - Swansea West)
Hilary Benn (Labour - Leeds South)
Siân Berry (Green Party - Brighton Pavilion)
Clive Betts (Labour - Sheffield South East)
Polly Billington (Labour - East Thanet)
Matt Bishop (Labour - Forest of Dean)
Olivia Blake (Labour - Sheffield Hallam)
Rachel Blake (Labour - Cities of London and Westminster)
Chris Bloore (Labour - Redditch)
Elsie Blundell (Labour - Heywood and Middleton North)
Kevin Bonavia (Labour - Stevenage)
Jade Botterill (Labour - Ossett and Denby Dale)
Sureena Brackenridge (Labour - Wolverhampton North East)
Jonathan Brash (Labour - Hartlepool)
Phil Brickell (Labour - Bolton West)
Chris Bryant (Labour - Rhondda and Ogmore)
Julia Buckley (Labour - Shrewsbury)
Richard Burgon (Independent - Leeds East)
Maureen Burke (Labour - Glasgow North East)
David Burton-Sampson (Labour - Southend West and Leigh)
Dawn Butler (Labour - Brent East)
Ruth Cadbury (Labour - Brentford and Isleworth)
Nesil Caliskan (Labour - Barking)
Markus Campbell-Savours (Labour - Penrith and Solway)
Irene Campbell (Labour - North Ayrshire and Arran)
Juliet Campbell (Labour - Broxtowe)
Alan Campbell (Labour - Tynemouth)
Sam Carling (Labour - North West Cambridgeshire)
Sarah Champion (Labour - Rotherham)
Bambos Charalambous (Labour - Southgate and Wood Green)
Luke Charters (Labour - York Outer)
Ellie Chowns (Green Party - North Herefordshire)
Feryal Clark (Labour - Enfield North)
Ben Coleman (Labour - Chelsea and Fulham)
Jacob Collier (Labour - Burton and Uttoxeter)
Lizzi Collinge (Labour - Morecambe and Lunesdale)
Tom Collins (Labour - Worcester)
Liam Conlon (Labour - Beckenham and Penge)
Sarah Coombes (Labour - West Bromwich)
Andrew Cooper (Labour - Mid Cheshire)
Beccy Cooper (Labour - Worthing West)
Yvette Cooper (Labour - Pontefract, Castleford and Knottingley)
Jeremy Corbyn (Independent - Islington North)
Deirdre Costigan (Labour - Ealing Southall)
Pam Cox (Labour - Colchester)
Neil Coyle (Labour - Bermondsey and Old Southwark)
Jen Craft (Labour - Thurrock)
Stella Creasy (Labour - Walthamstow)
Torcuil Crichton (Labour - Na h-Eileanan an Iar)
Chris Curtis (Labour - Milton Keynes North)
Janet Daby (Labour - Lewisham East)
Nicholas Dakin (Labour - Scunthorpe)
Ashley Dalton (Labour - West Lancashire)
Emily Darlington (Labour - Milton Keynes Central)
Alex Davies-Jones (Labour - Pontypridd)
Jonathan Davies (Labour - Mid Derbyshire)
Paul Davies (Labour - Colne Valley)
Marsha De Cordova (Labour - Battersea)
Josh Dean (Labour - Hertford and Stortford)
Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi (Labour - Slough)
Jim Dickson (Labour - Dartford)
Anna Dixon (Labour - Shipley)
Samantha Dixon (Labour - Chester North and Neston)
Anneliese Dodds (Labour - Oxford East)
Helena Dollimore (Labour - Hastings and Rye)
Stephen Doughty (Labour - Cardiff South and Penarth)
Peter Dowd (Labour - Bootle)
Graeme Downie (Labour - Dunfermline and Dollar)
Rosie Duffield (Independent - Canterbury)
Neil Duncan-Jordan (Labour - Poole)
Angela Eagle (Labour - Wallasey)
Maria Eagle (Labour - Liverpool Garston)
Lauren Edwards (Labour - Rochester and Strood)
Sarah Edwards (Labour - Tamworth)
Clive Efford (Labour - Eltham and Chislehurst)
Damien Egan (Labour - Bristol North East)
Maya Ellis (Labour - Ribble Valley)
Chris Elmore (Labour - Bridgend)
Kirith Entwistle (Labour - Bolton North East)
Florence Eshalomi (Labour - Vauxhall and Camberwell Green)
Bill Esterson (Labour - Sefton Central)
Chris Evans (Labour - Caerphilly)
Linsey Farnsworth (Labour - Amber Valley)
Josh Fenton-Glynn (Labour - Calder Valley)
Mark Ferguson (Labour - Gateshead Central and Whickham)
Patricia Ferguson (Labour - Glasgow West)
Natalie Fleet (Labour - Bolsover)
Emma Foody (Labour - Cramlington and Killingworth)
Catherine Fookes (Labour - Monmouthshire)
Vicky Foxcroft (Labour - Lewisham North)
Daniel Francis (Labour - Bexleyheath and Crayford)
James Frith (Labour - Bury North)
Gill Furniss (Labour - Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough)
Barry Gardiner (Labour - Brent West)
Allison Gardner (Labour - Stoke-on-Trent South)
Anna Gelderd (Labour - South East Cornwall)
Gill German (Labour - Clwyd North)
Tracy Gilbert (Labour - Edinburgh North and Leith)
Becky Gittins (Labour - Clwyd East)
Mary Glindon (Labour - Newcastle upon Tyne East and Wallsend)
Ben Goldsborough (Labour - South Norfolk)
Jodie Gosling (Labour - Nuneaton)
Georgia Gould (Labour - Queen's Park and Maida Vale)
John Grady (Labour - Glasgow East)
Lilian Greenwood (Labour - Nottingham South)
Nia Griffith (Labour - Llanelli)
Andrew Gwynne (Labour - Gorton and Denton)
Amanda Hack (Labour - North West Leicestershire)
Paulette Hamilton (Labour - Birmingham Erdington)
Emma Hardy (Labour - Kingston upon Hull West and Haltemprice)
Carolyn Harris (Labour - Neath and Swansea East)
Helen Hayes (Labour - Dulwich and West Norwood)
Tom Hayes (Labour - Bournemouth East)
Claire Hazelgrove (Labour - Filton and Bradley Stoke)
Mark Hendrick (Labour - Preston)
Meg Hillier (Labour - Hackney South and Shoreditch)
Chris Hinchliff (Labour - North East Hertfordshire)
Sharon Hodgson (Labour - Washington and Gateshead South)
Rachel Hopkins (Labour - Luton South and South Bedfordshire)
Claire Hughes (Labour - Bangor Aberconwy)
Alison Hume (Labour - Scarborough and Whitby)
Patrick Hurley (Labour - Southport)
Imran Hussain (Independent - Bradford East)
Leigh Ingham (Labour - Stafford)
Natasha Irons (Labour - Croydon East)
Sally Jameson (Labour - Doncaster Central)
Dan Jarvis (Labour - Barnsley North)
Terry Jermy (Labour - South West Norfolk)
Adam Jogee (Labour - Newcastle-under-Lyme)
Diana Johnson (Labour - Kingston upon Hull North and Cottingham)
Darren Jones (Labour - Bristol North West)
Gerald Jones (Labour - Merthyr Tydfil and Aberdare)
Lillian Jones (Labour - Kilmarnock and Loudoun)
Louise Jones (Labour - North East Derbyshire)
Ruth Jones (Labour - Newport West and Islwyn)
Sarah Jones (Labour - Croydon West)
Gurinder Singh Josan (Labour - Smethwick)
Sojan Joseph (Labour - Ashford)
Warinder Juss (Labour - Wolverhampton West)
Chris Kane (Labour - Stirling and Strathallan)
Mike Kane (Labour - Wythenshawe and Sale East)
Satvir Kaur (Labour - Southampton Test)
Liz Kendall (Labour - Leicester West)
Afzal Khan (Labour - Manchester Rusholme)
Naushabah Khan (Labour - Gillingham and Rainham)
Stephen Kinnock (Labour - Aberafan Maesteg)
Jayne Kirkham (Labour - Truro and Falmouth)
Gen Kitchen (Labour - Wellingborough and Rushden)
Sonia Kumar (Labour - Dudley)
Uma Kumaran (Labour - Stratford and Bow)
Peter Kyle (Labour - Hove and Portslade)
Laura Kyrke-Smith (Labour - Aylesbury)
Peter Lamb (Labour - Crawley)
Ian Lavery (Labour - Blyth and Ashington)
Noah Law (Labour - St Austell and Newquay)
Kim Leadbeater (Labour - Spen Valley)
Brian Leishman (Labour - Alloa and Grangemouth)
Emma Lewell-Buck (Labour - South Shields)
Andrew Lewin (Labour - Welwyn Hatfield)
Clive Lewis (Labour - Norwich South)
Simon Lightwood (Labour - Wakefield and Rothwell)
Rebecca Long Bailey (Independent - Salford)
Josh MacAlister (Labour - Whitehaven and Workington)
Alice Macdonald (Labour - Norwich North)
Andy MacNae (Labour - Rossendale and Darwen)
Justin Madders (Labour - Ellesmere Port and Bromborough)
Shabana Mahmood (Labour - Birmingham Ladywood)
Seema Malhotra (Labour - Feltham and Heston)
Amanda Martin (Labour - Portsmouth North)
Rachael Maskell (Labour - York Central)
Keir Mather (Labour - Selby)
Alex Mayer (Labour - Dunstable and Leighton Buzzard)
Douglas McAllister (Labour - West Dunbartonshire)
Kerry McCarthy (Labour - Bristol East)
Martin McCluskey (Labour - Inverclyde and Renfrewshire West)
Andy McDonald (Labour - Middlesbrough and Thornaby East)
Chris McDonald (Labour - Stockton North)
John McDonnell (Independent - Hayes and Harlington)
Blair McDougall (Labour - East Renfrewshire)
Lola McEvoy (Labour - Darlington)
Pat McFadden (Labour - Wolverhampton South East)
Alison McGovern (Labour - Birkenhead)
Alex McIntyre (Labour - Gloucester)
Gordon McKee (Labour - Glasgow South)
Kevin McKenna (Labour - Sittingbourne and Sheppey)
Catherine McKinnell (Labour - Newcastle upon Tyne North)
Jim McMahon (Labour - Oldham West, Chadderton and Royton)
Anna McMorrin (Labour - Cardiff North)
Frank McNally (Labour - Coatbridge and Bellshill)
Kirsty McNeill (Labour - Midlothian)
Anneliese Midgley (Labour - Knowsley)
Julie Minns (Labour - Carlisle)
Navendu Mishra (Labour - Stockport)
Abtisam Mohamed (Labour - Sheffield Central)
Iqbal Mohamed (Independent - Dewsbury and Batley)
Perran Moon (Labour - Camborne and Redruth)
Jessica Morden (Labour - Newport East)
Stephen Morgan (Labour - Portsmouth South)
Grahame Morris (Labour - Easington)
Joe Morris (Labour - Hexham)
Luke Murphy (Labour - Basingstoke)
Chris Murray (Labour - Edinburgh East and Musselburgh)
Ian Murray (Labour - Edinburgh South)
James Murray (Labour - Ealing North)
Katrina Murray (Labour - Cumbernauld and Kirkintilloch)
Luke Myer (Labour - Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland)
James Naish (Labour - Rushcliffe)
Connor Naismith (Labour - Crewe and Nantwich)
Lisa Nandy (Labour - Wigan)
Kanishka Narayan (Labour - Vale of Glamorgan)
Josh Newbury (Labour - Cannock Chase)
Samantha Niblett (Labour - South Derbyshire)
Charlotte Nichols (Labour - Warrington North)
Melanie Onn (Labour - Great Grimsby and Cleethorpes)
Chi Onwurah (Labour - Newcastle upon Tyne Central and West)
Simon Opher (Labour - Stroud)
Abena Oppong-Asare (Labour - Erith and Thamesmead)
Kate Osamor (Labour - Edmonton and Winchmore Hill)
Kate Osborne (Labour - Jarrow and Gateshead East)
Tristan Osborne (Labour - Chatham and Aylesford)
Sarah Owen (Labour - Luton North)
Darren Paffey (Labour - Southampton Itchen)
Andrew Pakes (Labour - Peterborough)
Matthew Patrick (Labour - Wirral West)
Michael Payne (Labour - Gedling)
Stephanie Peacock (Labour - Barnsley South)
Jon Pearce (Labour - High Peak)
Matthew Pennycook (Labour - Greenwich and Woolwich)
Toby Perkins (Labour - Chesterfield)
Jess Phillips (Labour - Birmingham Yardley)
Bridget Phillipson (Labour - Houghton and Sunderland South)
David Pinto-Duschinsky (Labour - Hendon)
Lee Pitcher (Labour - Doncaster East and the Isle of Axholme)
Jo Platt (Labour - Leigh and Atherton)
Luke Pollard (Labour - Plymouth Sutton and Devonport)
Joe Powell (Labour - Kensington and Bayswater)
Lucy Powell (Labour - Manchester Central)
Gregor Poynton (Labour - Livingston)
Peter Prinsley (Labour - Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket)
Richard Quigley (Labour - Isle of Wight West)
Steve Race (Labour - Exeter)
Connor Rand (Labour - Altrincham and Sale West)
Andrew Ranger (Labour - Wrexham)
Mike Reader (Labour - Northampton South)
Ellie Reeves (Labour - Lewisham West and East Dulwich)
Joani Reid (Labour - East Kilbride and Strathaven)
Emma Reynolds (Labour - Wycombe)
Martin Rhodes (Labour - Glasgow North)
Jake Richards (Labour - Rother Valley)
Jenny Riddell-Carpenter (Labour - Suffolk Coastal)
Dave Robertson (Labour - Lichfield)
Tim Roca (Labour - Macclesfield)
Matt Rodda (Labour - Reading Central)
Sam Rushworth (Labour - Bishop Auckland)
Sarah Russell (Labour - Congleton)
Oliver Ryan (Labour - Burnley)
Jeevun Sandher (Labour - Loughborough)
Michelle Scrogham (Labour - Barrow and Furness)
Mark Sewards (Labour - Leeds South West and Morley)
Naz Shah (Labour - Bradford West)
Tulip Siddiq (Labour - Hampstead and Highgate)
Josh Simons (Labour - Makerfield)
Andy Slaughter (Labour - Hammersmith and Chiswick)
John Slinger (Labour - Rugby)
Cat Smith (Labour - Lancaster and Wyre)
David Smith (Labour - North Northumberland)
Jeff Smith (Labour - Manchester Withington)
Nick Smith (Labour - Blaenau Gwent and Rhymney)
Sarah Smith (Labour - Hyndburn)
Karin Smyth (Labour - Bristol South)
Gareth Snell (Labour - Stoke-on-Trent Central)
Alex Sobel (Labour - Leeds Central and Headingley)
Euan Stainbank (Labour - Falkirk)
Jo Stevens (Labour - Cardiff East)
Kenneth Stevenson (Labour - Airdrie and Shotts)
Elaine Stewart (Labour - Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock)
Will Stone (Labour - Swindon North)
Alistair Strathern (Labour - Hitchin)
Alan Strickland (Labour - Newton Aycliffe and Spennymoor)
Lauren Sullivan (Labour - Gravesham)
Kirsteen Sullivan (Labour - Bathgate and Linlithgow)
Peter Swallow (Labour - Bracknell)
Mark Tami (Labour - Alyn and Deeside)
Mike Tapp (Labour - Dover and Deal)
David Taylor (Labour - Hemel Hempstead)
Rachel Taylor (Labour - North Warwickshire and Bedworth)
Nick Thomas-Symonds (Labour - Torfaen)
Fred Thomas (Labour - Plymouth Moor View)
Gareth Thomas (Labour - Harrow West)
Adam Thompson (Labour - Erewash)
Emily Thornberry (Labour - Islington South and Finsbury)
Marie Tidball (Labour - Penistone and Stocksbridge)
Stephen Timms (Labour - East Ham)
Jessica Toale (Labour - Bournemouth West)
Jon Trickett (Labour - Normanton and Hemsworth)
Henry Tufnell (Labour - Mid and South Pembrokeshire)
Anna Turley (Labour - Redcar)
Matt Turmaine (Labour - Watford)
Karl Turner (Labour - Kingston upon Hull East)
Laurence Turner (Labour - Birmingham Northfield)
Derek Twigg (Labour - Widnes and Halewood)
Liz Twist (Labour - Blaydon and Consett)
Harpreet Uppal (Labour - Huddersfield)
Valerie Vaz (Labour - Walsall and Bloxwich)
Chris Vince (Labour - Harlow)
Christian Wakeford (Labour - Bury South)
Imogen Walker (Labour - Hamilton and Clyde Valley)
Chris Ward (Labour - Brighton Kemptown and Peacehaven)
Melanie Ward (Labour - Cowdenbeath and Kirkcaldy)
Paul Waugh (Labour - Rochdale)
Chris Webb (Labour - Blackpool South)
Michelle Welsh (Labour - Sherwood Forest)
Catherine West (Labour - Hornsey and Friern Barnet)
Andrew Western (Labour - Stretford and Urmston)
Matt Western (Labour - Warwick and Leamington)
Michael Wheeler (Labour - Worsley and Eccles)
John Whitby (Labour - Derbyshire Dales)
Jo White (Labour - Bassetlaw)
Katie White (Labour - Leeds North West)
Nadia Whittome (Labour - Nottingham East)
David Williams (Labour - Stoke-on-Trent North)
Steve Witherden (Labour - Montgomeryshire and Glynd?r)
Rosie Wrighting (Labour - Kettering)
Yuan Yang (Labour - Earley and Woodley)
Mohammad Yasin (Labour - Bedford)
Steve Yemm (Labour - Mansfield)

Only after massive condemnation by the other parties did Keir Starmer decide to hold a national enquiry. It is hoped this enquiry will actually have the teeth to force those responsible for the neglect and eventual rape of these young girls up and down the country over the last four decades will be prosecuted under the full force of the law.