'Makes you feel sick!' Keir Starmer SLAMMED over 'horrific' grooming gang comments

Okay, it's time for me to conclude.

Imagine calling a grooming gang victim

who faced the most horrific sexual abuse

a teenage pimp. Let me just repeat that.

Calling a grooming gang victim a teenage

pimp. Have you ever heard anything so

horrific? What about the idea of being

instrumental in prosecuting British

veterans long after they've served our

country? That's pretty horrific, too,

isn't it? Those are two awful stories

about two national scandals, grooming

gang victims being failed and British

soldiers wrongly facing legal action.

What have they got in common? Well,

guess what? It's reported our prime

minister was at the center of both. As

director of public prosecutions, Kia

Starmer claims he was able to oversee

grooming gang perpetrators facing

justice. But the Express newspaper today

claims during one of those Rodale cases

which Kstarma was in charge of, one of

the victims was described as a teenage

pimp for tactical reasons during the

case.

It's also been exposed that under Saki's

watch, the Crown Prosecution Service

sought lesser charges against Rodale

gang member Adil Khn, even after DNA

analysis of a fetus confirmed he had

impregnated a 13-year-old girl who later

had an abortion. That decision meant

Kahn only served three years of an 8year

sentence for conspiracy to commit sexual

activity with a child rather than rape.

Makes you feel sick, doesn't it?

Shadow Home Secretary Chris Phelp has

now written to Shabbana Mammooj asking

the prime minister to apologize for what

he calls disgraceful failures and that

Starmmer's involvement in these grooming

gang cases is looked at as part of the

wider review into the scandal. But what

do both these stories tell you about the

lawyer we have in charge of our country?

If it's not sickening enough, another

story might just go to the heart of what

the prime minister is really like.

That's been exposed by the Telegraph

today. Karma was a pioneer of

groundbreaking legal claims that paved

the way for the witch hunt against

British troops in Iraq. That's according

to his own attorney general, Lord

Hermer, his own testimony. Yes, Sakia

had worked on two key legal claims which

established that human rights laws in

the UK should also apply apply in Iraq

where British troops were deployed.

Those cases gave Iraqis a green light to

sue the British government for false

imprisonment and mistreatment and led to

some Iraqi insurgents falsely claiming

British troops had executed Iraqis after

the Battle of Danny Boy in 2004.

Now, those claims were eventually

dropped after the deliberate lies,

that's how they were described, of the

clients of Lord Herma, yes, that name

again, were exposed at the public

inquiry 10 years later. So, we've got a

prime minister who was a lawyer, failed

grooming gang victims, and a prime

minister who, as a lawyer, helped

British veterans be falsely accused of

crimes after they'd served this country.

What does this say about the kind of man

that we have in charge? Now, Kest will

of course say he was only doing his job.

He had to do these things to get

justice. That human rights are more

important than anything else. But

doesn't this go to the heart of the

problem of having a lawyer instead of a

leader as prime minister? Don't these

revelations lead us to legitimately ask

what values he holds as a man? And most

importantly, how on earth could you have

faith in our prime minister to have your

back to do the right thing if you've

been a victim of a grooming gang or if

you serve our country in the armed

forces? I'll answer, I'm afraid you

can't. Now, maybe legally SMA was doing

the right thing, but morally this all

absolutely stinks.

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>> Okay, let's get some reaction to that

now. I'm joined by former Labor advisor

Danny Shaw. So Danny, I mean it's pretty

grim stuff, isn't it? When you hear that

the Express have exposed this language

used to describe a teenage pimp in a

court case that's meant to be

prosecuting the perpetrators against

these grooming gangs. It doesn't look

good, does it?

>> Well, that is very um very unfortunate

and inappropriate language and it's the

wrong kind of language to use. Um

whether or not uh K star was directly

responsible for that language I think is

open to question. He was the director of

public prosecutions in charge of the

Crown Prosecution Service that

prosecutes literally tens of thousands

of cases every year. I don't think he

had sight of the vast bulk of cases.

Probably only the most high-profile ones

came across his desk and the choice of

words that he used I don't think were

his. So I think it's a little bit

tenuous to pin that that particular one

on him particularly given the fact that

actually during his time at the Crown

Prosecution Service and I was covering

uh that as a home affairs correspondent

at the time he was incredibly

progressive about tackling violence

against women and girls and pursuing

prosecutions particularly um following

Operation Utree following the

revelations about Jimmy Savile when it

became obvious that a number of other

celebrities were implicated in sexual

abuse and the CPS brought some

successful prosecutions. Um, and he

actually was the one who rewrote some

guidance to basically say, you know, you

have to take victims more seriously and

just because they give um unclear,

incoherent accounts, it doesn't mean

they're not telling the truth. I

absolutely remember a briefing when he

launched those guidelines. So, Christo,

I think you need to be a bit careful

about pinning that particular allegation

on him. My goodness me, there's a huge

amount of criticism that you can stack

up against Karma and his um record as

prime minister. Not sure that's the best

example just because it happens to be in

the express.

>> The issue that I have though is that he

can't have it both ways. Karma is very

good at trying to take credit for

things. And what he has done is said,

"Look, I want to take credit for this

stuff. On my watch, these prosecutions

happened." Well, if on his watch that

language was used as well, ultimately

he's the guy at the top, he can't take

credit for the good stuff and then you

assert that we should forgive him for

the bad stuff or say he wasn't aware of

the bad stuff.

I think you can look at his overall

record if you want to go back to, you

know, 2008 when whenever it was and look

at his overall record as head of the

Crown Prosecution Service, but picking

individual cases or individual comments