{"id":69241,"date":"2026-06-24T14:10:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T18:10:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/?p=69241"},"modified":"2026-06-24T14:12:25","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T18:12:25","slug":"kemi-badenoch-slams-keir-starmer-for-cover-up-of-rape-gangs-in-50-towns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/?p=69241","title":{"rendered":"Kemi Badenoch slams Keir Starmer for &#8216;cover-up&#8217; of rape gangs in &#8217;50 towns&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h2>Kemi Badenoch accused Sir Keir Starmer of colluding in a cover-up of rape gangs as she demanded a national inquiry into the child grooming scandal.<\/h2>\n<p data-marker-percentage=\"50\">At\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/pmqs\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" data-google-interstitial=\"false\">Prime Minister&#8217;s Questions<\/a>\u00a0on Wednesday, she said at least 50 towns were affected but the Government was doing nothing.<\/p>\n<p>The Conservative leader said: &#8220;At least 50 towns are affected by rape gangs, places like Peterborough, Derby, Birmingham, Nottingham, Leicester, Rotherham, Rochdale and Preston.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Is he dragging his heels on this because he doesn\u2019t want Labour cover ups exposed?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-marker-percentage=\"75\">But a furious Sir\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/keir-starmer\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|AutoLink\">Keir Starmer<\/a>\u00a0claimed\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/conservative-party\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|AutoLink\">Conservatives<\/a>\u00a0had failed to tackle the issue when in power. And as tensions ran high, a Labour backbencher called Mrs Badenoch &#8220;a disgrace&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The PMQs clash comes the day before the local elections where\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/nigel-farage\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|AutoLink\">Nigel Farage<\/a>&#8216;s Reform UK is expected to perform well.<\/p>\n<p>____<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/news\/politics\/2048380\/pmqs-live-kemi-badenoch-keir-starmer\">https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/news\/politics\/2048380\/pmqs-live-kemi-badenoch-keir-starmer<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=69241"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69242,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69241\/revisions\/69242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}