Labour Migration MInister Mike Tapp has announced the need to investigate links between race and grooming gangs - but there aren't any, so why do this? Right, so there’s a particular move politicians make when they know the evidence isn’t on their side but they fancy sounding tough anyway. They don’t make a claim outright, that would be risky. Instead, they “ask the question”. They talk about “links”. They gesture vaguely at ethnicity, culture, religion, and then act offended when anyone points out what they’ve just done. That is exactly what happened here. Migration Minister Mike Tapp spoke to GB News, floated the idea of racial links to grooming gangs before any inquiry had even started, and Labour by inference, must stand behind it. Not because the evidence supports it — it doesn’t — but because the framing does useful work. It shifts attentio ...