Twelve hours. That's how long a public inquiry into Jeffrey Epstein's activities in Britain survived.
On Tuesday night, the victims minister told BBC Newsnight the Prime Minister was "looking into" an inquiry. Andy Burnham would meet Epstein's victims. He was "taking this very seriously."
By Wednesday morning, the line had changed. An inquiry is "not being actively considered."
No statement to Parliament. No explanation to survivors. Just a briefing, delivered before breakfast.
So what would an inquiry examine, that it needed strangling in its cot?
Flight logs show Epstein's jet landed at RAF Marham, a frontline strike base, in December 2000. On board with Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell was a passenger recorded in the files as a single word: "female."
No name. No age. Nothing.
Twenty-five years later, this state can produce your browsing history in seconds. It compels the retention of every citizen's internet records for a year. But the flight log of a sex offender's jet landing at a military base? Wiped, we're told, inside ninety days.
Ninety-five MPs want an inquiry. Gordon Brown has written to six police forces. Two of the most powerful men in Britain have been arrested.
And this morning, Downing Street decided nobody should be appointed to find out who that woman was.
Burnham stood with the Hillsborough families when the state investigated itself reluctantly. Now it's his turn to choose... all victims deserve justice...
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Who benefits from there being no inquiry?
