Exclusive: calls for Starmer’s resignation over years-long abuse cover-up as inquiry refusal blows up

Victim’s advocate calls for Starmer’s resignation over Labour abuse inaction as ‘mainstream’ media finally wake up to allegations Skwawkbox exposed 4yrs ago

Former police detective Maggie Oliver, who exposed Greater Manchester Police’s failure to protect young girls from criminal grooming gangs, has appeared on GB News this afternoon to discuss the refusal of Keir Starmer’s Safeguarding Minister Jess Phillips refusal to hold the government inquiry requested by Oldham council into the organised abuse of children.

And she said that nobody has any reason to trust Keir Starmer to do anything about the abuse because he was Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) during the then-Labour government’s instructions to police forces to cover up abuse:

The refusal of the Crown Prosecution Service under Starmer to take action against serial rapist Jimmy Savile is well known – though the CPS and politicians claim Starmer, as head of the CPS was not involved in the decision not to prosecute the country’s best-known and best-connected TV figure for serial rape and abuse, and all records of the decision-making process at the time were destroyed.

But Skwawkbox first exposed four years ago that Starmer, with frequent further revelations since, along with his general secretary at the time – the now-ennobled David Evans – repeatedly covered up whistleblower Elaina Cohen’s allegations that a staffer and alleged lover of right-wing Labour MP Khalid Mahmood was ‘criminally’ and ‘sadistically’ abusing Muslim women fleeing domestic violence, including blackmail and loaning them out to local figures for sex.

Starmer and Evans still took no action even after Mahmood, during Cohen’s successful tribunal case for wrongful dismissal over her whistleblowing, accepted without challenge the sworn evidence of one of the victims of the abuse. Their inaction led Ms Cohen to accuse Starmer of ‘brutal disregard for women’.

The Cohen case and the CPS failures are not the limit of Starmer’s record on abuse – his time as so-called leader of the ‘opposition’ and as PM has also raised serious issues. Starmer’s appalling record toward women includes sheltering two alleged sex pests in his Shadow Cabinet – and taking no action against disgraced MP Chris Matheson after he was placed under investigation and ultimately found guilty by Parliament of sexual harassment. Matheson instead resigned after the finding.

Starmer also welcomed Bermondsey and Old Southwark MP Neil Coyle back into the party last year, despite Parliament finding Coyle guilty of at least one count of sexual harassment and of making racist remarks – and now Starmer’s government is blocking the abuse inquiry that would have put his time as head of the CPS under scrutiny and disclosure.

And the Labour right-winger persistently did nothing to protect Poplar and Limehouse MP Apsana Begum, a survivor of domestic abuse, from attempts to criminalise and oust her as the constituency’s MP by allies of her ex-husband, with Labour instead denying her abuse and gathering to trumpet her removal if the attempt had succeeded, despite calls for action by the official Domestic Violence Advocate.

Skwawkbox contacted Keir Starmer:

Maggie Oliver says you can’t be trusted to deal with child sex abuse because of your inaction as DPP. Skwawkbox has exposed for 4 years your silence over Elaina Cohen’s whistleblowing. Will you – and I mean you, not Labour – finally comment?

He had not responded at the time of writing.

Majid Khan, an advocate for one of the victims of Mahmood’s staffer, told Skwawkbox that Starmer should be ashamed and called for his resignation:

I am an advocate for one of the survivors of the abuse exposed by Elaina Cohen’s protected disclosures that was let down by Keir Starmer and the Labour Party. Starmer should be ashamed of himself and resign immediately

‘Victim A’, one of the victims of that abuse, last year condemned Starmer’s failure to protect her and other survivors:

I am grateful to Chief Constable of West Midlands Police Craig Guilford for ordering a review of Operation Aureus [the abandoned investigation into the criminal abuse, including rape and blackmail]. I hope this time [the alleged perpetrator] and her accomplices face justice.

I feel saddened and let down by Prime Minister Keir Starmer, who has promised to help and make women and girls who have been criminally abused feel safer. As a victim and survivor of criminal abuse, by a member of the Labour Party, will Keir Starmer keep his promise and help me get justice?

Skwawkbox understands that several ‘mainstream’ channels are now – albeit four years late – looking to cover these events.

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