00:00I know that there will be some questions, not specifically for me or Chris, but for survivors and family members.
00:05But if you could please direct those questions to me first, and then I will ask them.
00:10And I'd like to start with Charlie Peters of GB News, who has done quite a lot of work on this topic. Charlie.
00:17Good morning. Yes, as you said, I'm going to spare Lucio, Teresa, Fiona and Marlon on the questions.
00:23I'd rather grill the politicians on this one.
00:25You've put forward those tests, Kemi and Chris, that you're going to hold the government to account on with this inquiry.
00:31But it seems to me in your list, Chris, that you are missing out Whitehall and Westminster.
00:37Will you ensure that they are investigated as well?
00:42We've heard compelling evidence about civil servants covering up abuse.
00:46Will you put forward an amendment or take other action to ensure that people in Westminster, including the CPS, are also dragged before this commission?
00:55So my view is that the inquiry needs to go where the evidence leads.
00:59If there is evidence that there are institutions, whether they are national or local, have been complicit in a cover-up, then that definitely needs to be looked at.
01:08No one should be left on the side and left outside.
01:13This is a full national inquiry.
01:15So I don't believe that any institution should be out of scope.
01:18If there is evidence pointing, credible evidence pointing to any institution, then that should be looked at.
01:24But we know that quite a lot has come out already.
01:28This is why we didn't need to wait six months to agree a national inquiry.
01:32Most of what was in Baroness Casey's report, which I welcome, I felt I'd seen before and I knew.
01:38And what we need right now is the moral courage to just do the right thing rather than continually finding reasons to kick stuff into the long grass.
01:47And that's what I really want to see.
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