Home Office Minister Jess Phillips took questions in parliament about the grooming gangs inquiry (Jonathan Brady/PA)A fourth survivor also reportedly resigned on Tuesday. Ms Mahmood acknowledged frustrations about the pace of progress towards launching the inquiry, which was announced by Sir Keir Starmer in June and is yet to appoint a chair. We must call them what they were: evil child rapists,” Ms Mahmood said in an op-ed for the Times and GB News. She later accused safeguarding minister Jess Phillips of lying for disputing allegations that the inquiry was being watered down and called on her to stand down from her position. “There will be no hiding place for those who abused the most vulnerable in our society.