Former detective and grooming gang whistleblower Maggie Oliver has launched a blistering attack on Prime Minister Keir Starmer after he appeared to link those calling for an inquiry into grooming gangs with far-right activists.
Oliver, who served 16 years in the police force, expressed her fury during an appearance on GB News.
The former detective, who made protecting children her top priority during her career, condemned the apparent association of inquiry supporters with extremism.
Speaking on GB News, she told Martin Daubney: “It won’t surprise you that I am incandescent with rage. I am no far-right activist. I am a woman who gave 16 years of my life to the police and protecting children was number one priority in my life.
Former detective and grooming gang whistleblower Maggie Oliver fumed at Starmers comments
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“All the victims that I know and that we support are victims who have had their lives destroyed. To write them off as far-right extremists is insulting in the extreme and it’s another indication of how it’s deflecting from the issues.”
She added: “This is a national problem and we need to elevate it on to a national basis. In relation to Oldham, I would say that that report in Oldham was a complete whitewash.
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“I feel that if we are going to go down the road of a national inquiry, the question isn’t are we going to have one? It’s who is going to lead it? What are the terms of reference? Are victims going to be front and centre of that inquiry?
“We are not far-right extremists. We are ordinary people who see children being abused on an industrial scale without understanding the reasons and addressing those we’re never going to see the changes that we need.”
“Keir Starmer was the Director of Public Prosecutions when the Rochdale case was ongoing. He would have been entirely aware, if not responsible, for the charging decisions made on that.
“When we have a 13-year-old girl that was made pregnant by a 40 odd year-old man, where we had a foetus and we had DNA, the decision to charge that man only with sexual activity with a child and trafficking is abhorrent in the extreme. That is the head of the CPS, the Director of Public Prosecutions
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“So I feel I know that he could have done more. Other offenders on that case were given a slap on the wrist, basically. So I think now he is conveniently forgetting those things.”
Oliver noted that due to lack of data collection, exact figures aren’t available.
“The only thing we can see is the pictures of the abusers in the outcomes of the trials and it’s very clear the makeup of the abusers in these kinds of cases,” she added, “We really, really need to get a grip.”
The row erupted after tech billionaire Elon Musk accused Starmer of being “complicit in the rape of Britain” during his time as director of public prosecutions.
Maggie Oliver said she is ‘incandescent with rage’ over the PMs far-right comment
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The Prime Minister hit back, saying those “spreading lies and misinformation are not interested in victims.”
He accused opposition politicians of “amplifying what the far-right is saying” after failing to act “for 14 long years.”
Health Secretary Wes Streeting suggested Musk should have a “social media detox.”
Downing Street denied that Starmer had labelled everyone calling for an inquiry as far-right, the Prime Minister was instead criticising politicians for jumping on a far-right bandwagon, according to Number 10.