From Silence to Spin: Jonathan Brash's Shameless U-Turn on Grooming Gang Probe...

Jonathan Brash refused to back an Inquiry in January 2025

After helping block a national grooming gang inquiry back in January 2025, Brash now pretends to support it—just like his Prime Minister in yet another shameful U-Turn for the Labour Party...

15th June 2025

It seems the Labour Government has now backtracked on its bid to block a national child abuse inquiry...

Once again, the Labour Party has shown the British public exactly where its priorities lie—and it’s not with any of the victims of grooming gangs.

Earlier this year, Conservative MPs put forward a simple yet vital proposal: a national inquiry into grooming gangs, a long-overdue move to finally shine the spotlight on one of the darkest stains on modern Britain. But Keir Starmer’s Labour Party, armed with its newly acquired supermajority, blocked the motion outright—364 votes to 111. Not a single Labour MP broke rank. That includes Hartlepool's own Jonathan Brash.

This was no ordinary vote. It was a defining moment to lay bare a national scandal & give the victims justice & labour chose the side with silence.

Instead of backing transparency and justice for thousands of children—many failed by the very systems Labour claims to champion—Starmer’s party shielded itself with spin. The argument? That a new inquiry might "delay action," and that the Tories were "playing politics." But this is politics of the most cowardly kind: the politics of cover-up, deflection, and institutional betrayal.

Labour’s argument not to back an Inquiry quickly fell apart under scrutiny. As many have pointed out—including Nigel Farage and many victims' advocacy groups—the refusal to hold a new inquiry reeks of self-protection, especially given Starmer’s role as the Director of Public Prosecutions (2008–2013) during the critical years when many of these cases were supposedly 'swept under the rug'.

And it doesn’t stop there. Back home in Hartlepool, the hypocrisy deepens.

It could blow open a scandal much closer to home

There's claims Hartlepool Borough Council was complicit in covering up the abuse of children in its managed care homes as far back as the 1990s

A recent Local Government Ombudsman report dismissed a Hartlepool resident’s claim of historical child sexual abuse dating back some 30 years, which allegedly occurred whilst they were under the care of Hartlepool Borough Council in the 1990s. The resident had fought for justice for decades, only to be coldly turned away by the system that was supposed to protect them, with the Ombudsman claiming too much time had passed since the alleged incident had occurred & that the local resident seemingly had no access to redress now in the present. Its also claimed a significant number of the reports going back this far had supposedly 'been lost' by Hartlepool Borough Council themselves...

However, it seems just months after this made headlines through a HBC Exposed report & Labour suffering yet more losses in the opinion polls, Brash, like a Barry Manilow Recording, seems to have suddenly changed his tune once more...

On the 14th June, the same Labour MP who voted against a national grooming gang inquiry, posted this gem on the social media platform X:

Brash voted against a national grooming gang inquiry earlier this year in yet another shameful U-turn

“This is the right decision. There can be no stone left unturned to get the people responsible for these atrocious crimes, including anyone complicit in them. We must ensure victims see justice.”

Critics claim this is typical Brash Style & reeks of political opportunism. A man who actively blocked a nationwide truth-seeking inquiry now postures himself as the champion for victims....

The victims of grooming gangs however are likely to see it much differently. They want accountability. They want politicians who don't crumble under party pressure. They want inquiries that lead to criminal prosecutions, not virtue signalling. It’s about right and wrong. And it’s about justice.

From Rotherham to Rochdale, and now perhaps even Hartlepool, a pattern emerges—cover-up, denial, silence. And Labour, despite claiming to be a party for the vulnerable, continues to show it's unwillingness to confront systemic child exploitation—especially when it implicates councils, police forces, or perhaps some from its own senior ranks.

Conservative Leader Kemi Badenoch stated Starmers refusal to back an inquiry fuels concerns of a cover up

Let’s not forget: Kemi Badenoch was right when she said Starmer’s refusal to back a probe "fuels concerns about a cover-up." And when Elon Musk used his own platform to call out the Labour leadership, it wasn’t a conspiracy—it was a public service.

Brash's Reckoning Is Coming

Brash's latest U-Turn may have just sealed his political fate & its unlikely he will be given a second term as MP

The people of Hartlepool will remember Brash's latest U-Turn. They will remember that Brash voted against justice for victims of grooming gangs back in January. That he opposed scrutiny. That he stood silent when a Hartlepool survivor was denied justice by a council he now blindly defends.

And when the next election come—be it local or national—locals will likely ensure that this act of political cowardice and hypocrisy is not forgotten.