The $30 million toe in the water

Reform UK has pledged to release every file, email, memo, and record held by central government, local authorities, police forces, and the Home Office relating to grooming gangs over the past 40 years.

This includes increasing funding for dedicated police and National Crime Agency taskforces by £300 million, bringing the total to £400 million.

The party has accused the Starmer government of a seven-month delay in acting on Baroness Casey's call to preserve records, calling it unforgivable.

Why 4,000 unsold units became the prize

The grooming gangs scandal represents the greatest state failure in modern British history, with public bodies including councils, police, and social services actively facilitating and concealing the systematic rape and exploitation of vulnerable children throughout the early 2000s.

These were overwhelmingly white working-class girls ,targeted by monstrous gangs disproportionately made up of Pakistani men.

For years, the authorities placed community relations above the safety of British girls, dismissing victims as troublemakers or willing participants.

An echo of Sydney's 2024 institutional buy-up

When the full horror in Greater Manchester finally emerged, Burnham as mayor resisted calls for a proper national inquiry for years, says Yusuf.

He served in the Home Office during Tony Blair's government at a time when reports of widespread abuse poured in.

Shortly before he became a minister, in 2003, survivor 'Amy', forced into sex acts with multiple men at just 13 years old, reported her ordeal to South Yorkshire Police.

Who is the unnamed buyer?

The party has accused Andy Burnham of using the communities he failed to catapult himself to power, with Reform UK promising to deliver justice to survivors of grooming gangs.

The party has pledged to shatter the wall of institutional protection and ensure every guilty party faces justice, whether they operate from council offices or the streets.

Andy Burnham had the power to stop the grooming gangs, but he failed to act, leaving countless girls to endure horrific abuse at the hands of those predators.

What auditors flagged in the May filing

Survivors have heckled Burnham at public meetings, with his reply being that he stands by his record and accuses his critics of creating hate.

Not a single council worker or police officer in Greater Manchester has faced criminal proceedings for their role in this betrayal.

Inquiries and fine words achieve nothing when evidence is destroyed and both street predators and public officials walk free.

A familiar pattern from the 2019 crash

A Reform government will shatter this wall of institutional protection, within our first 100 days, we will release every file, email, memo, and record held by central government, local authorities, police forces, and the Home Office relating to grooming gangs over the past 40 years.

Starmer's government's seven-month delay in acting on Baroness Casey's call to preserve records is unforgivable , says Yusuf.

The identities of victims will be protected,but no official will be allowed to hide. Court records and transcripts will be made public.