Jess Phillips, the so-called safeguarding minister responsible for the grooming gang inquiry, under growing pressure to resign after being accused of lying to MPs.
A second senior figure has withdrawn from chairing the inquiry, saying the process undermined by “political opportunism and point-scoring”.
Four victims on the inquiry’s advisory panel have also resigned.
Phillips presiding over a shambles.
Phillips denied claims by Fiona Goddard, a victim of the grooming gangs, that the inquiry could be widened to include other forms of sexual abuse. Goddard then produced evidence which appeared to contradict this.
The victims say Phillips’s “conduct over the last week has shown she is unfit to oversee a process that requires survivors to trust the government.”
They want her resignation. A devastating judgment.