Grooming gang survivors tell MPs to stop ‘tug-of-war with vulnerable women’ – UK politics live

<p>Two survivors urged politicians and those without experience of abuse to allow women to shape the investigation</p><p>Campaigners from trade unions, voluntary organisations and the <strong>Church of Scotland</strong> have announced plans for an anti-poverty march to “demand better” from politicians in <strong>Scotland</strong>, reports the PA news agency.</p><p>The campaign, <strong>Scotland Demands Better</strong>, will culminate in a march in <strong>Edinburgh</strong> on 25 October, walking from the Scottish parliament, up the <strong>Royal Mile</strong> and along <strong>George IV Bridge</strong> to <strong>The Meadows</strong>.</p><p>Change for the better happens when people stand together and demand it. Scotland desperately needs that change.</p><p>Too many of us are being cut off from life’s essentials. Too many are frightened of what the future will bring. Too many of us are feeling tired, angry, isolated, and disillusioned.</p><p>Air pollution remains the most important environmental threat to health, with impacts throughout the life course.</p><p>It is an area of health where the UK has made substantial progress in the last three decades, with concentrations of many of the main pollutants falling rapidly, but it remains a major cause of chronic ill health as well as premature mortality.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2025/jun/19/uk-politics-live-news-labour-conservatives-keir-starmer-iran">Continue reading...</a>