Robbie Moore MP

Today, I can announce we have secured a full independent grooming gangs inquiry across Keighley and the wider Bradford district. This is a watershed moment and marks a significant turning point in the pursuit of justice, truth and accountability for victims and survivors right across our area. It comes almost two decades after Anne Cryer first had the courage to raise this issue in Parliament. The inquiry will be fully independent of Bradford Council. It will focus on examining failures in local and national safeguarding systems, evidence handling, institutional accountability, and investigate the role of ethnicity, race and culture, and allegations of systematic abuse covered up by authorities. It will have statutory powers to compel witnesses and evidence. And where there is evidence of wrongdoing or cover-ups, it will be able to refer matters to the police. No one will be able to hide. When I first got elected, six and a half years ago, some of the first meetings I had were with local survivors like Fiona Goddard. Listening to their accounts of this crime, I was confronted with horrors that I will never forget. I made a promise to them then that I would do everything in my power to ensure their voices were heard and the truth would come out. Since then, I have consistently campaigned for this inquiry. I want to pay tribute to Fiona Goddard and the many others from across Keighley whom I have met - without them, none of this would be possible. Fiona is one of the bravest individuals I have ever met. Her extraordinary courage in speaking out and becoming a leading voice for survivors nationally should be an inspiration to us all - both locally in Keighley and across the UK. Now, after tireless campaigning and lobbying, their voices are finally being heard. I also want to recognise the work of leading child abuse lawyer David Greenwood, who has helped bring vital cases and evidence forward. He has been crucial to this campaign. Working with him, it has been clear for all to see that the scale of this issue across the Bradford District will dwarf that of the likes of Rotherham, Rochdale and Telford. At times, our calls for a full inquiry were dismissed, or rejected altogether. Yet despite this we refused to give up. For many years, political leaders from across our region, including the previous Bradford Council Leader Susan Hinchcliffe, the Mayor of West Yorkshire Tracy Brabin and Deputy Mayor for Policing, Alison Lowe repeatedly rejected our calls for an inquiry. It was my firm view that these refusals mirrored the same patterns of denial seen in towns like Rotherham and Telford. There, decades of abuse were hidden in plain sight until independent inquires finally forced the truth into the open. It was deeply frustrating, but nevertheless welcome that it was only once a national inquiry was recommended by Baroness Casey in June 2025, supported by the Home Secretary, that these same local leaders changed their position, and supported our calls. Whilst no inquiry can undo the pain and suffering they have endured, it can help ensure the truth is uncovered and that those who were failed finally receive the answers they have spent years fighting for. And finally. One of the most difficult lessons of this entire process is that survivors have had to become campaigners themselves just to be heard. That should never have been necessary. It speaks to a deep and painful failure in Britain right now, and of the institutions at every level of the British state. Now we owe it to survivors, and to thousands across our area who suffered in silence, to see this through together. This inquiry must seek the truth - however horrific it may be. And bring about justice to those who have been failed for far too long. I will not stop until we achieve this. Robbie

Brilliant to attend the Associated British Foods plc reception this afternoon in Parliament. It was fantastic to meet and talk to so many leaders and stakeholders in the sector, and to hear the challenges facing the businesses represented in the room, who are vital to the British economy: the food manufacturing industry is worth over £162 billion to the UK economy and supports more than 4.1 million jobs, meaning it employs people right up and down the country. The war in Ukraine, a summer of unprecedented hot weather and now the war in the Middle East, should mean that a resilient food system is at the top of the government's agenda. However, high energy costs, the flawed rollout of SFI 26 and Labour's obsession with taxes mean the food manufacturing sector and British farmers don't have the confidence they need to invest in their businesses. Our food manufacturing industry, alongside British farmers, are vitally important and it is paramount that government policy supports them to grow, and doesn't hold them back. I am determined to make the changes necessary to do that when we return to government.

🇬🇧 There is no greater service than defending our nation at home and abroad, and it was great to see everyone today united in remembrance, wearing our poppies with pride and remembering the great sacrifices of friends, loved one’s and past generations. We are ever indebted to our armed service personnel, our veterans and their families and friends who support them. Sunshine and shadows pass Loving memories ever last We will remember them.

🐄🐏 One of the best ways to spend a Friday night…. in Dots Cafe at Darlington Auction Mart. Huge thanks to the Durham Grassland Society for very kindly asking me to come and speak about all things food and farming and how in my role as Shadow Farming Minister, we are holding this disastrous Labour government to account. In was clear from the room, their is absolutely no love for this Labour government, who clearly couldn’t care less about our farmers. Just as a start, we will scrap the Family Farm and Family Business Tax, and scrap the Fertiliser Tax - all of which Labour have brought in. We will also restructure DEFRA to ensure food security and rural economic growth is at the heart of the department. We are determined to win the trust back amongst our farming community.

🚨TAX, TAX, TAX, - This Labour Government is simply making it impossible for local businesses to operate. WATCH my reaction to Andy Burnham’s Budget.

🙋‍♀️🙋‍♂️WEEKLY SURGERIES - HERE TO HELP YOU 👍 Huge thanks to all who kindly came along to my weekend surgery this week - this time held in Ilkley at the Clarke Foley Community Hub. I hold surgeries every week across the constituency for any resident who has an issue or needs help. Surgeries are a fantastic opportunity to come and talk to me about what matters to you and also bring up any concerns that you would like me to help resolve. #HereToHelpYou

We cannot let these criminals get off scot-free. This woeful, pathetic sentence is another kick in the teeth for the Keighley residents and local businesses who are constantly affected by the ongoing arson attacks at Dalton Mills. I have written to the Attorney General, insisting that the sentence is reviewed. Meanwhile, I continue to demand Bradford Council uses its statutory powers to secure the site, to which they have failed to do so to date. It is vital that they act now before further damage is caused to Dalton Mills and neighbouring property, or someone is seriously injured or killed. I fear that this feeble sentence has just given the green light for further arson, as anyone found guilty will now know they can just get away with it. Read More: bbc.in/4iqtLHv 📸 Optimum Fireworks / House of Commons

🚜 Huge privilege to be invited along to speak in Northumberland last night with past members of the Worshipful Company of Farmers Business Management Course who are farming between the Tay and the Tyne. Giving an overview of my role as Shadow Farming Minister, I set out what we are doing nationally to hold this disastrous Labour government to account. It is clear that Rural Britain is under attack by this government - and our farmers are feeling the brunt of their decisions. Great questions from the floor, focused on how the legislation process works and what our plans are to drive better productivity and profitability across the whole food and farming sector. I am determined to win the trust back amongst our farming community.

Come off it. You have clearly been eating too many gherkins. They’re not making you think straight.

Through his own budget, Andy Burnham’s rhetoric of ‘food security is national security’ has just been proven as meaningless. Labour’s failure to axe the family farm and family business tax is catastrophic for the sector. And there was no focus whatsoever on improving food security, or addressing the cashflow crisis which is hitting many of our farmers and growers right now. Their failure to act, despite huge calls from many hardworking farming families and wider industry figures, demonstrates they simply couldn’t give a damn about where our food comes from or who produces it. It’s all bluff and warm words. Be under no doubt, we Conservatives will not stop campaigning for our farmers and rural communities. We will axe the Family Farm and Family Business Tax, and put food security at the heart of all we do.

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Labour just don’t get it. Nearly 30,000 farmers were locked out of the Sustainable Farming Incentive this summer due to the government significantly cutting the budget. But yet days later, Angela Eagle signs off nearly £2 million of taxpayers money to buy land in Northumberland from one landowner. Money which DEFRA could have allocated to SFI to benefit many more farmers up and down the country to help build financial resilience and support nature. The Rothbury Estate is already highly biodiverse and serves as an important habitat for rare ground-nesting birds, such as curlews, red grouse, and merlins. Labour’s decision to help purchase the Estate is nothing more than nationalisation of our farmed and managed landscape driven by this government’s continued virtue signalling of environmental agendas. Their unnecessary intervention risks displacing working farms, threatening long-standing land management traditions and ultimately being hugely detrimental to nature, wildlife and current conservation practices. It’s clear, Rural Britain cannot afford another day of this Labour government. They are bad for farmers, bad for nature and bad for the British taxpayer.

Tomorrow is the Budget. Andy Burnham must do the right thing and Axe the Family Farm Tax. 🚜

Absolutely pathetic. £15 million pounds worth of damage, lost revenue of £130,000 to impacted business and lives put at risk. This woeful sentence will be another kick in the teeth for the Keighley residents and local businesses who have constantly been affected by the ongoing arson attacks at Dalton Mills. It is nothing but a slap on the wrist and does nothing to form a deterrent. This suspended prison sentence does not reflect the seriousness of the crime, the risk put on our local community, nor the huge damage it caused to our key heritage asset in the town. I continue to demand Bradford Council uses its statutory powers to secure the site, to which they have failed to do so to date. It is vital that they act now before further damage is caused to Dalton Mills and neighbouring property, or someone is seriously injured or killed. I fear that this feeble sentence has just given the green light for further arson, as anyone found guilty will now know they can just get away with it. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c9p8…

Our farmers can’t afford another day of this Labour government. They are taxing our farmers, taxing our fertiliser, and turned the Sustainable Farming Incentive into a complete debacle. The Prime Minister must change course and axe the Family Farm and Family Business Tax at the Budget. 🎥 FULL WATCH👇