Samantha Smith is a journalist whose work appears in The Spectator, The Daily Telegraph, and The Daily Mail, and she is a regular commentator on GB News. Despite being in the middle of completing a law degree at Durham University, she has already emerged as one of the leading conservative voices in Britain and one of its most promising young writers. Her success comes in spite of a past marked by severe abuse and institutional neglect. She was made homeless as a teenager and was groomed and sexually abused from the age of five to 14. She grew up in Telford, where the abuse of children was routinely ignored by police and local authorities in order to avoid stoking racial tensions.
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INTERVIEW: Samantha Smith on grooming gangs, institutional failure and the price of silence
Samantha Smith exposes Britain’s grooming gang scandal, institutional failure and cultural denial, drawing on her personal experience of abuse.
Thomas Edwards
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