The Sentence May Be A Scandal But The Cover-Up Is Also A Crime

Why Reform Must Find The Courage To Go Further

A mandatory minimum sentence for child rape finally acknowledges what victims and campaigners have said for years. These crimes were not misunderstandings, cultural confusion, or failures of paperwork. They were acts of organised sexual violence against children, carried out openly while institutions chose not to intervene. Tougher sentencing matters. But it will not be enough.

This Was Never Just About Individual Offenders

The rape gangs scandal was not the work of a few bad men slipping through the cracks. It was systemic.

Groups of men were allowed to abuse children for years because police forces failed to act, councils suppressed reports, and politicians decided that confronting the truth carried too high a political cost.

The racism within those communities was not challenged. The religious extremism that fed entitlement, misogyny, and contempt for victims was ignored. Authorities chose silence over confrontation, and children paid the price.

Children were not just abandoned to protect reputations. Children were sold for votes.

The Crime Did Not End With the Abuse

Putting offenders in prison, even for life, addresses only part of the crime. It does nothing to confront the political cover-up that enabled the abuse in the first place.
Men were protected. Warnings were ignored. Evidence was buried. Victims were disbelieved, blamed, or written off as troublesome. Officials who should have intervened instead prioritised careers, ideology, and public image.

Some of those people remain in public life. Others retired quietly. None have faced consequences for the harm they enabled.

That is the unfinished crime. This is what Reform must find the courage to take on.

When Exposed, the System Did Not Come Clean

When this was exposed, it was met with a cover up. Reports were managed. Language was softened. Responsibility was diluted. Attention was redirected away from those who made the decisions that allowed the abuse to continue.

Files did not disappear by accident. Investigations were not stalled by chance. These were conscious choices taken by people in authority to conceal failure and avoid accountability.

The cover up was political.

The Mayor and His Whitewash

How Burnham, McMahon & the Labour Party Weaponised A Worthless Review The Oldham Independent Assurance Review was published in June 2022. Andy Burnham and senior Labour politicians immediately declared victory. The review had addressed allegations of institutional cover-up “head on”, they said. Questions about child protection failures could now be put

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Reform Are Right. Now They Must Go Further

Reform UK are right to acknowledge the cover up. They are right to say that attempts were made to hide these crimes and protect institutions.

But acknowledgement is not justice.

Politicians played a role in suppressing evidence, blocking investigations, and protecting organisations at the expense of children. They are not observers of this scandal. They are participants in it. And participants must be prosecuted.

Prosecution cannot stop with the abusers. It must extend to those in public office who enabled, concealed, or obstructed justice. That includes senior officials and powerful politicians who sacrificed children to protect an ideology and their own careers.

Justice Does Not Stop With the Paedophiles

Without full national truth-telling, without reopening cases where evidence was buried, and without criminal accountability for those who orchestrated the cover up, the system will simply adapt and continue. Quieter. Smoother. Just as lethal.

This was a crime of power. Sustained by fear, ideology, and cowardice at the top.
Justice must reach the offices where decisions were made to allow the gang rape to continue.

The council leaders who buried reports. The police chiefs who ordered investigations to stop. The MPs who attacked those trying to expose the truth. The civil servants who managed the messaging to protect their ministers. They are not bystanders to history. They are criminals who used public office to obstruct justice and protect child abusers. Some of them sit in Parliament today. Some run councils. Some collect pensions having "served" the public for decades. All of them escaped consequences while children suffered.

With announcing this policy, Reform have taken a small but significant step. But let's not pretend it is anywhere near enough. Which is why I now urge all of my friends in Reform to continue demanding more from Zia and his team. We must find the courage to see this through.

Politicians did not wake up one day and decide to do the right thing. Journalists did not suddenly decide this is newsworthy. We are not where we are because of them. We will not get where we need to be if we leave it to the very same people that were part of the cover up to deliver justice. Stand with me.

I'm Raja Miah. For seven years, I led a small team that exposed how politicians protected the rape gangs. Before that, I spent over a decade safeguarding children and protecting communities from extremists.

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