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1 Jun 2026
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Nigel Faragethis transcript
MP for Clacton, Leader of Reform UK
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Contradicted by evidence80% confidence
“I was surprised that during 14 years of Conservative Government, we did not have a proper judicial inquiry with the necessary powers.”
Claim checkedDuring 14 years of Conservative government there was no proper judicial inquiry with the necessary powers into grooming gangs.
The Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (2015–2022) was a statutory inquiry under the Inquiries Act 2005, set up under a Conservative Government, and it ran a dedicated investigation into child sexual exploitation by organised networks (report February 2022).
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Contradicted by evidence85% confidence
“I have done my best to encourage the current Prime Minister to do the same, but sadly to no avail.”
Claim checkedThe current Prime Minister has not set up a proper judicial inquiry with the necessary powers into grooming gangs, despite Farage's encouragement.
A national statutory inquiry into grooming gangs was announced in June 2025, its chair (Baroness Longfield) was appointed in December 2025 and it launched in March 2026, before this debate.
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“They were last effectively used back in 2011 by the Public Accounts Committee, which in the wake of the global financial collapse of 2008 used the powers of this Palace to turn Committees into courts.”
Claim checkedParliament's power to turn committees into courts was last effectively used in 2011, by the Public Accounts Committee after the 2008 global financial crash.
The best-known 2011 use of select-committee summons powers was the Culture, Media and Sport Committee's order for Rupert and James Murdoch to attend over phone hacking, not the Public Accounts Committee acting on the 2008 financial crisis.
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Supported“I was unaware of the problem, its scale and the cover-up until the Rotherham by-election in 2012, when the current hon. Member for Rotherham (Sarah Champion) was elected.”Procedural: His own account of when he first learned of the problem. · Westminster Hall debate: Child Sexual Offender Data (e-petition 730605), 1 Jun 2026