On Tuesday 2 September, Jess Phillips told the House of Commons that, "South Yorkshire police should never have been left to investigate themselves in this matter, and moving those investigations to the NCA is absolutely the right thing to do. I would be lying if I said that over the years I had not met girls who talked to me about how police were part of not just the cover-up but the perpetration."
Read again those words of the Minister who refused a statutory inquiry, an inquiry that had been, and still is, demanded by the Muslim candidate whom she had beaten by only 693 votes at Birmingham Yardley, which he intends to contest again, the wonderful investigative journalist Jody McIntyre. There was a reshuffle very soon after Phillips's breathtaking and stomach-turning admission to Parliament. She should have been sacked then. She should certainly be sacked now.
You know who wanted her to be Leader?
ReplyDeleteWes Streeting, who chaired her campaign, for a start. Peter Kyle, that close friend, closest ally, and former lover of Ivor Caplin. And Kyle's political patroness and Anna Turley's, who had been Chief Whip at the time of the Iraq War, when the Whips' Office had included Caplin, Phil Woolas, and Dan Norris, who was also close to Caplin, and whose proxy vote is still cast by the Whips. All three were made Ministers soon after the vote on Iraq. Were you thinking of anyone else?
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