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A courageous survivor of a Pakistani grooming gang has united with Nigel Farage and Reform UK in calling for a comprehensive national investigation into the systematic abuse of young girls across Britain and the institutional failures that enabled it.

Elizabeth Harper, who documented her harrowing experiences in her book *Snatched*, revealed the devastating negligence of South Yorkshire Police, local authorities, and social services in addressing the sexual exploitation perpetrated by Pakistani-heritage men during the early 2000s in Rotherham.

Addressing attendees at Reform UK’s North West England Conference in Chester, Harper emphasized the urgent need for governmental action.

“We need proper data on the motives and the drivers of the perpetrators involved,” she said. “We need the data on the ethnicity of these perpetrators, and we need action and change. This is a must, not only for people just like me, but for those children that may be suffering now and in the future.”

Harper recounted how her ordeal began when she was 14, describing how a female accomplice facilitated her capture, leading to 10 weeks of imprisonment and sexual abuse by Pakistani men. She revealed that South Yorkshire Police had received extensive intelligence about local grooming gangs seven years prior yet failed to act.

In a particularly disturbing revelation, Harper described how law enforcement not only ignored her abusers but actually arrested her father when he attempted to rescue her.

“I often think how horrendous it is that the only adult at that time who was made accountable for my abuse was my dad, the only one that was trying to save me. My abuse carried on for four and a half years, right under the eye of those that needed to protect us, protect me,” she said.

Farage commended Harper’s courage in sharing her story, criticizing Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s refusal to launch a dedicated inquiry.

“It is beggar’s belief that the Prime Minister has denied brave victims like Elizabeth Harper the inquiry this country needs to stop this kind of race-based sexual abuse of our young children,” he said.

While Labour maintains that previous investigations suffice, Farage advocates for a focused examination specifically targeting Pakistani grooming gangs’ exploitation of young white girls. Despite Starmer’s claims that such an inquiry would require seven years, Farage asserts it could be completed within nine months, pledging that Reform UK would independently fund an investigation if the government fails to act by month’s end.

Support for the inquiry continues to grow, with prominent Labour figure Andy Burnham joining the calls for action. Public sentiment strongly favors an investigation, with recent YouGov polling indicating 76 percent support among British citizens, while only 13 percent oppose.