GROOMING GANGS INQUIRY VOTE The full list of 364 Labour, Green, and Independent MPs who voted AGAINST holding an inquiry into the systematic rape of young British girls

[MrCheeky]

Jack Abbott

Diane Abbott

Debbie Abrahams

Zubir Ahmed

Luke Akehurst

Sadik Al-Hassan

Bayo Alaba

Dan Aldridge

Heidi Alexander

Douglas Alexander

Rushanara Ali

Tahir Ali

Rosena Allin-Khan

Callum Anderson

Fleur Anderson

Tonia Antoniazzi

Scott Arthur

Jess Asato

James Asser

Jas Athwal

Catherine Atkinson

Lewis Atkinson

Paula Barker

Lee Barron

Alex Barros-Curtis

Johanna Baxter

Danny Beales

Lorraine Beavers

Torsten Bell

Hilary Benn

Clive Betts

Polly Billington

Matt Bishop

Olivia Blake

Rachel Blake

Chris Bloore

Elsie Blundell

Kevin Bonavia

Jade Botterill

Sureena Brackenridge

Jonathan Brash

Chris Bryant

Julia Buckley

Phil Brickell

Dawn Butler

Ruth Cadbury

Nesil Caliskan

Markus Campbell-Savours

Irene Campbell

Juliet Campbell

Alan Campbell

Sarah Champion

Bambos Charalambous

Luke Charters

Feryal Clark

Ben Coleman

Jacob Collier

Lizzi Collinge

Tom Collins

Liam Conlon

Sarah Coombes

Andrew Cooper

Beccy Cooper

Yvette Cooper

Deirdre Costigan

Pam Cox

Neil Coyle

Jen Craft

Mary Creagh

Stella Creasy

Torcuil Crichton

Chris Curtis

Janet Daby

Nicholas Dakin

Ashley Dalton

Emily Darlington

Alex Davies-Jones

Jonathan Davies

Paul Davies

Marsha De Cordova

Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi

Jim Dickson

Anna Dixon

Samantha Dixon

Anneliese Dodds

Helena Dollimore

Stephen Doughty

Peter Dowd

Graeme Downie

Angela Eagle

Maria Eagle

Lauren Edwards

Sarah Edwards

Clive Efford

Damien Egan

Maya Ellis

Chris Elmore

Kirith Entwistle

Florence Eshalomi

Bill Esterson

Chris Evans

Linsey Farnsworth

Josh Fenton-Glynn

Mark Ferguson

Patricia Ferguson

Natalie Fleet

Emma Foody

Catherine Fookes

Vicky Foxcroft

Daniel Francis

James Frith

Gill Furniss

Barry Gardiner

Allison Gardner

Anna Gelderd

Gill German

Tracy Gilbert

Mary Glindon

Ben Goldsborough

Jodie Gosling

Georgia Gould

John Grady

Lilian Greenwood

Nia Griffith

Andrew Gwynne

Amanda Hack

Emma Hardy

Carolyn Harris

Helen Hayes

Tom Hayes

Claire Hazelgrove

Mark Hendrick

Meg Hillier

Chris Hinchliff

Sharon Hodgson

Rachel Hopkins

Claire Hughes

Alison Hume

Patrick Hurley

Leigh Ingham

Natasha Irons

Sally Jameson

Dan Jarvis

Diana Johnson

Darren Jones

Gerald Jones

Lillian Jones

Louise Jones

Ruth Jones

Sarah Jones

Gurinder Singh Josan

Sojan Joseph

Warinder Juss

Chris Kane

Mike Kane

Satvir Kaur

Liz Kendall

Afzal Khan

Naushabah Khan

Stephen Kinnock

Jayne Kirkham

Gen Kitchen

Sonia Kumar

Uma Kumaran

Peter Kyle

Laura Kyrke-Smith

Peter Lamb

Ian Lavery

Noah Law

Kim Leadbeater

Brian Leishman

Emma Lewell-Buck

Andrew Lewin

Clive Lewis

Simon Lightwood

Josh MacAlister

Alice Macdonald

Andy MacNae

Justin Madders

Shabana Mahmood

Seema Malhotra

Amanda Martin

Rachael Maskell

Keir Mather

Alex Mayer

Douglas McAllister

Kerry McCarthy

Martin McCluskey

Siobhain McDonagh

Andy McDonald

Chris McDonald

Blair McDougall

Lola McEvoy

Pat McFadden

Alison McGovern

Alex McIntyre

Gordon McKee

Kevin McKenna

Catherine McKinnell

Jim McMahon

Anna McMorrin

Frank McNally

Kirsty McNeill

Anneliese Midgley

Julie Minns

Navendu Mishra

Abtisam Mohamed

Perran Moon

Jessica Morden

Stephen Morgan

Grahame Morris

Joe Morris

Luke Murphy

Chris Murray

Ian Murray

James Murray

Katrina Murray

Luke Myer

James Naish

Connor Naismith

Lisa Nandy

Kanishka Narayan

Josh Newbury

Samantha Niblett

Charlotte Nichols

Melanie Onn

Chi Onwurah

Simon Opher

Abena Oppong-Asare

Kate Osamor

Kate Osborne

Tristan Osborne

Sarah Owen

Darren Paffey

Andrew Pakes

Matthew Patrick

Michael Payne

Stephanie Peacock

Jon Pearce

Matthew Pennycook

Toby Perkins

Jess Phillips

Bridget Phillipson

David Pinto-Duschinsky

Lee Pitcher

Jo Platt

Luke Pollard

Joe Powell

Lucy Powell

Gregor Poynton

Peter Prinsley

Richard Quigley

Steve Race

Connor Rand

Andrew Ranger

Mike Reader

Joani Reid

Emma Reynolds

Martin Rhodes

Jake Richards

Jenny Riddell-Carpenter

Tim Roca

Matt Rodda

Sam Rushworth

Sarah Russell

Oliver Ryan

Jeevun Sandher

Michelle Scrogham

Mark Sewards

Naz Shah

Tulip Siddiq

Josh Simons

Andy Slaughter

John Slinger

Cat Smith

David Smith

Jeff Smith

Nick Smith

Sarah Smith

Karin Smyth

Gareth Snell

Alex Sobel

Euan Stainbank

Jo Stevens

Kenneth Stevenson

Elaine Stewart

Will Stone

Alistair Strathern

Alan Strickland

Graham Stringer

Lauren Sullivan

Kirsteen Sullivan

Mark Tami

Mike Tapp

David Taylor

Rachel Taylor

Nick Thomas-Symonds

Fred Thomas

Gareth Thomas

Adam Thompson

Emily Thornberry

Marie Tidball

Stephen Timms

Jessica Toale

Jon Trickett

Anna Turley

Matt Turmaine

Karl Turner

Laurence Turner

Derek Twigg

Liz Twist

Harpreet Uppal

Valerie Vaz

Chris Vince

Christian Wakeford

Imogen Walker

Chris Ward

Melanie Ward

Paul Waugh

Chris Webb

Michelle Welsh

Catherine West

Andrew Western

Matt Western

Michael Wheeler

John Whitby

Jo White

Katie White

Nadia Whittome

David Williams

Steve Witherden

Rosie Wrighting

Yuan Yang

Mohammad Yasin

Steve Yemm

 

 

All reaction

 

[HeadNun]

It was no doubt whipped pretty hard, so always best to take voting records with a pinch of salt. 

At least there's going to be a new inquiry, at last. It's still happening. 

[CPR Dave]

Ellie Reeves is not on that list. 

[HeadNun]

I'd eat my hat if she voted against, so no doubt she's been missed off

[Earl Aelfheah]

For the sake of balance, the Tories also failed to implement any of the recommendations of the previous inquiry. 

I'm not sure it's helpful to play party politics on this one. Nearly all parties and many different institutions have failed massively over a long period of time. Certainly Casey (who undertook the rapid review and who has recommended the inquiry) has urged people not to use it for political point scoring.

As said above, at least there is now going to be a full inquiry.

Edited June 20 by Earl Aelfheah

[HeadNun]

Yep, agreed, EA .The whole thing has been shameful. 

[ianr]

Do you know what the motion was?

Why does your list only contain 335 lines?

[MrCheeky]

https://reachdata.live/mp_vote/get_code.php?form_newsletter=mirror_politics&form_dataset=758f58829e0c08e40a12ac5eaacb088d

[Sue]

Sorry, wrong thread!

Edited June 20 by Sue

[malumbu]

9 hours ago, MrCheeky said:

https://reachdata.live/mp_vote/get_code.php?form_newsletter=mirror_politics&form_dataset=758f58829e0c08e40a12ac5eaacb088d

What's your point?  There was a position, it has changed following a report.  That happens.

Surely you will be glad that there is now an inquiry.

You sound quite an angry person.

There was absolutely no point in posting the names unless you are expecting some sort of vigilante action against those MPs.  Instead you could have articulated your views.  Or just given links to the right wing and even more right wing parties that are having a hay day over this.

[MrCheeky]

8 hours ago, malumbu said:

What's your point?  There was a position, it has changed following a report.  That happens.

Surely you will be glad that there is now an inquiry.

You sound quite an angry person.

There was absolutely no point in posting the names unless you are expecting some sort of vigilante action against those MPs.  Instead you could have articulated your views.  Or just given links to the right wing and even more right wing parties that are having a hay day over this.

huh  angry not at AII i think its  awsome to name n shame them  . as for me being right wing im very proud of it . does that mke yyou mad n get your BIood presure riseing?  sureIy you dont support chiId grooming or do you  ? i mean tommy robinson did teII you This was happening many yeras ago and of course there reaction was the same as yours .IabIed right wing and racist. 

[Moovart]

An inquiry will put a huge amount of time and resource into looking at what happened in the past and why it happened and who was responsible and, in a year or two maybe more, a report will be produced and actions may or may not be taken, some of those responsible for bad decisions will already have resigned and moved on.  

Given that we now already understand some of the issues that allowed this awful behaviour to continue unchallenged, my concern is less about whether there is an inquiry to examine what happened in the past but about what is being done right now to protect girls and young women from predatory and exploitative men in whatever race or identity they come in.

Inquiries examine the past but don't necessarily solve problems and they certainly don't come up with conclusions quickly which is why they can often feel hollow.  I'd rather see perpetrators and those that let the perpetrators act with impunity, actually being prosecuted and an inquiry won't do that.  I suspect that's why some MPs voted against an inquiry.

But do feel free to give me examples of inquiries that really made a difference and actually changed things in a timely and effective way.

 

 

 

Edited June 21 by Moovart
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[alice]

I would support an inquiry if an equal amount of money was spent on helping young people who are going through this right now. 

[David Peckham]

On 20/06/2025 at 09:40, HeadNun said:

It was no doubt whipped pretty hard, so always best to take voting records with a pinch of salt. 

I'm not so sure about that.

Starmer, Reeves, Lammy and Rayner are noticeable by their absence. The only one of the 'Big Five' on the list is Cooper who, as Home Secretary, one would hope was on top of this. It's bang on her brief.

Edited June 21 by David Peckham
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[HeadNun]

I was wondering the same until I found these few paras from Louise Casey’s report:

 

Five months ago, I told the House our most important task was to stop perpetrators and put them behind bars.

I can report that that work is accelerating.

Arrests and investigations are increasing.

After I asked police forces in January to identify cases involving grooming and child sexual exploitation allegations that had been closed with no further action, more than 800 cases have now been identified for formal review.

And I expect that figure to rise above 1,000 in the coming weeks.

9 hours ago, Moovart said:

An inquiry will put a huge amount of time and resource into looking at what happened in the past and why it happened and who was responsible and, in a year or two maybe more, a report will be produced and actions may or may not be taken, some of those responsible for bad decisions will already have resigned and moved on.  

Given that we now already understand some of the issues that allowed this awful behaviour to continue unchallenged, my concern is less about whether there is an inquiry to examine what happened in the past but about what is being done right now to protect girls and young women from predatory and exploitative men in whatever race or identity they come in.

Inquiries examine the past but don't necessarily solve problems and they certainly don't come up with conclusions quickly which is why they can often feel hollow.  I'd rather see perpetrators and those that let the perpetrators act with impunity, actually being prosecuted and an inquiry won't do that.  I suspect that's why some MPs voted against an inquiry.

But do feel free to give me examples of inquiries that really made a difference and actually changed things in a timely and 

I guess the inquiry won’t just be historic, like the post office, for eg. Grooming gangs are still at large.

So the inquiry is alongside accelerated action to bring historical and current perps to justice, as well as the people and institutions failing to expose them. 

[malumbu]

Are they still at large?  

Nothing immediately on line, including the Sun, Express, Mail, X and Reform.  Maybe we heard it here first 

[HeadNun]

Listen to the victims or the journalists who have and still do report on it, and they will all tell you it's still happening. 

It's not hard to find copious newspaper articles online - maybe work on your google search skills. 

 

https://www.thetimes.com/uk/crime/article/grooming-gangs-bradford-3cljk5dzw

[malumbu]

I expect my Google and AI profile is different to yours.  Mine probably avoids the alarmist and right wing articles.

I do occasionally flick through an old copy of the Daily Mail when at the hairdressers and surprised at all the dreadful things that go on, that never comes to my attention.

[HeadNun]

Mal, why is it that, when EA said let's not make this political, your only response is a puerile insult about someone being right wing? On what basis is The Times (in which the late Andrew Norfolk risked everything to expose the story), alarmist? And all the other mainstream newspapers?  This isn't some conspiracy story lurking in a dark corner of the web. Perhaps I know a little about it because my google and AI profiles offer up balanced reportage from respected journalists across the spectrum.

I'm curious to know why you dismiss anyone who supports the investigation of police and local authorities who, not only failed to protect vulnerable young women, but actually criminalised them. You seem uncomfortable with the idea of accepting the reality - is because your beloved councils will come under greater scrutiny? 

An article worth reading by the alarmist and raging right wing journalist Pippa Crerar 

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/jun/16/grooming-gangs-in-uk-thrived-in-culture-of-ignorance-casey-report-says

 

Edited June 22 by HeadNun