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  "publishedAt": "2026-03-09T03:38:06.000Z",
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  "tags": [
    "denial of the existence of grooming gangs in London",
    "_the London Mayor was asked on nine occasions if there were rape gangs operating_",
    "young girls had been forced into grooming gangs",
    "Grooming gang survivors are struggling to access national inquiry consultations",
    "Grooming gangs whistleblower declares campaign 'isn't going anywhere' following High Court victory",
    "Katie Lam hits out at 'weak' Keir Starmer for his PMQs 'attack' on grooming gangs: 'He is incapable'",
    "The GB News Editorial Charter"
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  "textContent": "\n\n\nA petition with more than 40,000 signatures calling for London Mayor Sir Sadiq Khan to resign over his denial of the existence of grooming gangs in London is set to be delivered to City Hall.\n\nIt will be delivered to Reform UK councillor and London Assembly member Keith Prince by the CitizenGo advocacy group.\n\n###\n\n\n\n\nMr Price is then expected to present the petition to City Hall.\n\nAccording to the group, it intends to bring \"urgent attention\" to grooming gangs in the capital and highlight Sir Sadiq's \"refusal\" to launch an inquiry into the issue.\n\n###\n\n\n\n\nTRENDING\n\nStories\n\nVideos\n\nYour Say\n\nIn January 2025, _the London Mayor was asked on nine occasions if there were rape gangs operating_, either presently or historically, in London.\n\nHe insisted he was \"not clear\" what the question meant and, following clarification on the question with specific reference to the rape gangs in Rotherham and Bradford, Sir Sadiq claimed he was \"none the wiser\".\n\nSir Sadiq also last year said there was no \"indication of (…) grooming gangs\" operating comparably to that of Rochdale or Rotherham in the capital.\n\n\"The Mayor has repeatedly said on record that there are grooming gangs in London,\" a spokesman for the Labour Mayor has since said.\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n###\n\n\n\n\nSpeaking to GB News in October, former Met Police officer and whistleblower Jon Wedger said he was \"beyond redemption\" over grooming gangs in London.\n\nMr Wedger said he was told to drop investigations into 50 cases of child abuse or he would \"lose his home, job and children\", as what he had exposed would \"f*** the Metropolitan Police\".\n\nLast month, an investigation by the BBC uncovered that young girls had been forced into grooming gangs in London despite the Mayor's initial rejections of the claims.\n\nDetective Sergeant John Knox, the head of the Met Police's child exploitation team in the south London boroughs of Lambeth and Southwark, said girls and young women were the \"lowest rung\" in gangs.\n\n### GROOMING GANGS - READ THE LATEST:\n\n\n\n\n  * Grooming gang survivors are struggling to access national inquiry consultations\n  * Grooming gangs whistleblower declares campaign 'isn't going anywhere' following High Court victory\n  * Katie Lam hits out at 'weak' Keir Starmer for his PMQs 'attack' on grooming gangs: 'He is incapable'\n\n\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n###\n\n\n\n\nBaroness Casey's report on group-based child sexual exploitation and abuse across Britain identified discrepancies in the way the Met Police recorded child abuse cases.\n\nCitizenGO UK campaigner Zuzana Revayova hit out at Sir Sadiq's \"leadership on this issue, or rather the lack of it\", accusing him of presiding over a \"catastrophic failure\".\n\nShe said: \"While the Mayor focuses on divisive ideological agendas, the safety of London’s most vulnerable children is being compromised.\n\n\"The tens of thousands of people who signed this petition are demanding accountability and real action.\"\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n###\n\n\n\n\nA spokesman for Sir Sadiq has previously said: \"The Mayor has always been clear that the safety of Londoners is his top priority and nowhere is this truer than in safeguarding children.\n\n\"Sadiq is committed to doing all he can to protect children in London from organised criminal and sexual exploitation and bring perpetrators to justice.\n\n\"This includes his £15.6million Violence and Exploitation Support Service, which provides specialist support to young Londoners who are vulnerable, caught up in or being exploited by criminal gangs in the capital as well as supporting the Met to deliver a new child-first approach to safeguarding and enforcement action to tackle county lines.\n\n\"We remain vigilant to emerging and changing threats and will continue to do everything we can to protect children in the capital from abuse, violence and exploitation in all its forms.\"\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n**Our Standards:The GB News Editorial Charter**\n",
  "title": "Petition for Sadiq Khan to resign over 'grooming gangs denial' to be presented at City Hall"
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