Tuesday’s newspaper front pages are dominated by the newly released audit led by Baroness Louise Casey into grooming gangs. The papers react to the details within the report especially focusing on the fact that authorities “shied away from the ethnicity” of the perpetrators over fears of raising racial tensions.
The front pages leave space to report on the G7 summit, including the UK and US signing a trade deal and Donald Trump leaving the G7 early as the Middle East crisis escalates and commentators speculate if the US military is about to enter the crisis.
Grooming Gangs scandal
The Daily Mail and The Times are among the papers to highlight the report of a conspiracy of silence over fears of accusations of racism.
- The Times says the report found that the ethnicity of the offenders was “brushed aside”.
- The Daily Mail says a “conspiracy of silence over race doomed thousands of girls to abuse”. It reports that public bodies “covered up” evidence “for fear of appearing racist”.
- The Daily Express front page leads with an interview with a victim of a grooming gang, who has called for every council and police force to be investigated.
- The i says a “generation of girls” have been let down by police, councils and MPs. It quotes the report which says authorities “shied away from the ethnicity of perpetrators” for fears of “raising tensions”.
- The Daily Telegraph highlights the report saying asylum seekers and foreign nationals are involved in a “significant proportion”.
- The Metro says the victims of the grooming gangs were failed by “blindness, ignorance, prejudice, defensiveness.” The paper front splash reports the home secretary has apologised to victims.
- The Daily Mirror says “never again” leading on Yvette Cooper’s pledge that “there will be no hiding place from justice” for perpetrators. More than 1,000 cases will be reviewed after “years of failure” by authorities.
- The Sun says the “devastating” report has “laid bare” how victims were failed. It says girls targeted by grooming gangs were “betrayed by the state”.
Israel pushes Iran to the brink
Many of Tuesday’s newspapers report on the latest from the Middle East as Trump leaves the G7 early as the situation escalates.
- The FT reports on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s claim that Israel has gained control over Tehran’s airspace.
- The Guardian leads with the evacuation orders issued by the Israeli military as it continues to strike targets inside Iran.
- The Times says Trump’s abrupt departure from the G7 summit in Canada marks a dramatic rejection of multilateral efforts by the world’s richest democracies to come together to push for de-escalation in the wars in Iran and Ukraine.