Labor Minister Lucy Powell is confronted with calls to resign from survivors of rape after calling a scandal with gangs to grow a “dog whistle”.
The leader of the House of Municipalities has been criticized that she downplayed the victims with the comments she made on the BBC radio.
She was in the program for any issues of BBC Radio 4 on Friday night with conservative party co -chairman Nigel Hudston, Liberal Democrat MP Helen Morgan and a political commentator and a member of the UK reform, Tim Montgomers when asked for grunting bands.
When Montgomerie brought out a recent documentary “Channel 4” for five women’s stories to maintain and abuse by bands, d -powell replied: “Oh, we want to blow this little tube now, right? Let’s take out this dog whistle, right?”
Her comment was widespread.
Sarah Wilson, a victim of a Roterrum scandal, said G -Ja Powell’s comments show what they survived “against all these years” and why they were not “listened to – they were never interested and never.”
She wrote: “Completely rejected the survivors and our experience from [being] maintained. I was an 11-year-old girl, raped and trafficking in the whole of England … trying to blow up the whistle of the Dogs and be saved, but instead they threw us at the dogs and left us to be tortured. “
Marlon West, the father of a gang victim, told GB News: “I think now the mask has been slipping on what is the general opinion of Labor MPs.
“I was overwhelmed by other survivors that contact me and we are horrified – she has to resign. The Labor Party has to at least stop it and make a full investigation.”
G -Ja Powell publishes an apology on social media on a Saturday night, writing: “In the midst of discussion on (any questions), I would like to clarify that I consider to be questions of childhood exploitation and raising with the most seriousness. I am sorry if it was not clear. I caused the political point in which they are referring, not the question itself.
Her cabinet colleague, Wes Street, said G -Jza Powell was “horrified” and her comments were not interpreted as she intended.
Speaking on the BBC on the BBC with Laura Quensberg’s program, the health secretary said, “She is horrified and, you know, she does not want and does not want people who have fought or are victims of these most terrifying crimes, to think that she is somehow trying to undermine these experiences or those arguments.
“I think the meaning I was trying to make and the question I would do is such a serious problem, the more we can bring out the warmth of politics from this and get to the heart of the challenge, the better.”
Asked if his labor colleagues see a scandal with banding bands as a dog whistle or “encoded racist signal”, the Health Minister said on Sunday morning to Sky News with the Trevor Phillips program: “No, and I don’t think that is what Lucy intends to score on the heated debat
“I don’t think she would have meant or wanted to suggest that lifting these problems, talking about these problems, is a whistle of dogs.”
“We all make mistakes” and the important thing is that “we own it,” added G -n streeting.
Asked if the work of D -Ja Powell as the leader of the House of Commons was safe, he replied: “I think she made a real mistake, she is owned by her, she said I’m sorry and we will move on.”
Mr. Montgomerie said Mrs. Powell’s comments were “clearly unscrupulous”, but her words have a “wider resonance”.
“There has been a tendency – now it takes too long – to close any important debate by throwing this racist accusation on people,” Montgomers told Sky News.
He said people think there was a “suffocation of the debate”.
“In the context of the growing bands, a question of such consequences, I think it was obviously bad faith by Lucy Powell, but she was, I think she wanted to have a very strong reform and I was a representative of the reform tonight.
“But unfortunately, the words she chose have a broader resonance.
“And I think the only trouble if it really is to get into trouble (e) if the survivors come out in a large issue and object to what it said.”
The conservative co-chairman Mr Hudston told Sky News statement that Mrs. Powell’s statement was “completely inappropriate”.
He said, “Honestly, Lucy Powell made a lot of stupid comments all over a set of problems. It was one of them.
“This is a really serious problem for some enchantor … He is completely inappropriate.
“I think this shows that, unfortunately, Wes Street and the Labor Party have underestimated how big the problem is, how they resonate with the public, and how angry about what they perceive as the lack of action by this government here.
“They have made promises of further investigations and have now affected it and they must be kept to report this.”
G -Hudelston also insisted that the issue needs “right, full investigation”, adding: “The public requires this and I just don’t understand the reasons why work is so reluctant.
“So I am afraid that this is making some political cover because they are worried that it can cause some harm to labor politicians and labor tips.
“There are accusations that labor advice and some of the labor areas that are responsible for the supervision of some of the activities here have not taken the right action and I think they are embarrassed by it.
“They must be disturbed by this to be fair, these are accusations, right?
“They are charges, but then you clear the charges by conducting a full investigation.”
At least 1,400 children were sexual exploitation in Roterm between 1997 and 2013.
The issue of cultivation-influential by Pakistani gangs-is returned to the spotlight after Laburi declined to request a new investigation by Whitehall.
Instead, the government ordered local studies, although Interior Secretary Yvet Cooper had ordered a “quick audit” on the scale of the question.