Sadiq Khan On The Brink As SHOCK New Claims Deepen Scandal Storm đŸ”„ K1

The Express was the first title to expose the London grooming gangs scandal and now fresh revelations casting more doubt on the mayor’s response.

Sadiq Khan

Sadiq Khan is in serious trouble – even the BBC are after him (Image: Getty/Express)

In September, Sadiq Khan was not only denying the existence of grooming gangs in London but calling first-hand evidence from whistleblowers “malicious” and “politically motivated.”

We know that because it was the Daily Express who first exposed London’s horrific grooming gangs scandal.

At the time I knew the strength of his denial was designed to intimidate. And for a lot of other outlets, Khan’s intimidation tactics worked: they tiptoed around the subject or killed the story altogther.

But not the Express.

We were the only title to challenge the mayor’s ludicrious stance prove it to be complete and utter tosh.

Our stories exposed clear evidence of grooming gangs in the capital and that the Mayor himself had read the reports of their existence.

At first, however, we stood on our own. GB News was the only other major outlet to pick up on the story. But then, a week after our investigation into what the mayor knew, the dam broke. From The Times to The Standard, the Mail to the Sun, everyone jumped on the story, and the responses about it being “malicious” looked even more ludicrous than before.

The Metropolitan Police suddenly admitted that it was reviewing 9,000 potential grooming gang cases and the Mayor pivoted.

Khan no longer claimed that grooming gangs didn’t exist, but instead said that they weren’t seeing the type of offending present in Northern towns like Rochdale and Rotherham, where offenders were of one ethnicity and victims another.

Well, yesterday a report from the BBC suggests that this stance is not accurate either. An investigation published by the broadcaster describes how ‘Milly’s’ “experience of grooming gangs in London [
] mirrored what had happened in towns and cities such as Rotherham, Rochdale and Oldham.”

The report, correctly, describes with nuance how the offending picture in London is as diverse as its population.

But given how Khan responded to our initial report this needs more scrutiny.

It’s good that other titles have picked up initative but we can’t stop.

The good news is that the Express will never stop leading the charge for truth and accountability.

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