‘Deeply flawed’ Islamophobia definition should be dropped as it would ‘curtail free speech’ after grooming gang scandal, Keir Starmer warned [Video]

05:03 EST 05 Jan 2025, updated 05:03 EST 05 Jan 2025

Sir Keir Starmer has been urged to scrap Labour‘s proposed new definition of Islamophobia – with warnings people’s free speech could be curbed, in the wake of widespread grooming gang scandals. 

Pressure has been mounting on the Prime Minister after his government blocked calls for a public inquiry into rape and sexual abuse by gangs in Oldham. 

The world’s wealthiest man Elon Musk, owner of social media platform X, has been waging online war against Sir Keir on the issue- accusing him of being ‘complicit’ in ‘the worst mass crime in the history of Britain’.

And Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch has joined calls for a new inquiry into the handling of grooming gangs who have been exposed across the country, in cases where the abusers were predominantly Asian men. 

Now campaigners fear a mooted new government definition of Islamophobia could undermine efforts to crack down on such crimes …