, Labour's Shadow Home
Secretary, in response to denying comments he made
regarding investigations into historic child abuse cases:
“Boris Johnson’s original comments were so shameful and
hurtful to the victims of historic child abuse that it is no
wonder he now wants to deny he ever said them.
“The Prime Minister must apologise, sincerely and
profusely, for the harm his disgusting comments caused, and now
for lying to the people about it.”
Ends
Notes to editor:
· In March this year,
said “£60m I saw was being
spaffed up the wall on some investigation into historic child
abuse”
"One comment I would make is that I think an awful lot of
the money, an awful lot of police time, now goes into these
historic offences and all this malarkey - £60m I saw
was being spaffed up the wall on some investigation into historic
child abuse and all this kind of thing.
@29.20, LBC phone-in, 13 March 2019, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWZGcccUSK0
· Speaking today,
denied saying it.
“David Parker, Rotherham Advertiser: Welcome to Rotherham
prime minister. A few months ago, you said in a radio interview
that lots of local police forces were “spaffing money up
the wall” - is that something you still believe? On
investigations of historic CSE [this may have been CSA or COC,
recording unclear].
“Johnson: That’s actually not what I said but,
what I certainly can say, is I think all such investigations are
extremely important. But the point I was making was that
we do need to be backing our police to be fighting crime and
that’s why we’re investing in 20,000 police out on the streets
and putting about £1bn more into policing.
