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🚨 NEW @TheNatPulse: UK PM Andy Burnham’s New Strategy Chief Worked With Convicted Paedophile to Downplay UK Grooming Gangs. Matthew McGregor, former Director of Campaigns and Communications for Hope Not Hate and current Head of Political Strategy for new British Prime Minister Andy Burnham, co-wrote a report downplaying the nationwide grooming gang scandal alongside a convicted pedophile, The National Pulse can reveal. The 2021 Hope Not Hate report, titled ‘Backlash, Conspiracies & Confrontation,’ focused on “the rise in awareness and popularity of conspiracy theories” during the COVID-19 pandemic. Matthew McGregor and Liron Velleman are listed as “contributors.” On Page 35, in ‘Section 2 – Racism,’ in a sub-section called ‘Truth Under Siege,’ the report describes “trumped-up grooming allegations” in England, and supporters of anti-grooming gangs activists of “accusing police and the media of a ‘cover up’ when police found no evidence of grooming.” In 2023, in his capacity as Political Organizer for Hope Not Hate,Velleman was invited to the UK Parliament to provide oral evidence regarding the Online Safety Bill, a piece of legislation that has since been passed into law, pitched as aiming to protect children from online pornography, but heavily criticized for its censorious and anti-privacy provisions. Velleman gave evidence regarding protecting “children and adults alike” from “terrorist, illegal, abusive and harmful content.” Earlier this year, Velleman was sentenced to an eight-month suspended prison sentencefor sending a video of his penis to someone he thought was a 13-year-old girl in 2024. Velleman was also serving as a Labour Party elected councillor at the time. He asked the young girl if she was “at home alone,” demanding to know whether she was a virgin, as well as asking: “Show me your bra.”

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