Gaia Cooper’s harrowing ordeal of abuse and resilience was published as Modern Slave, which was ghost-written by Veronica Clark.

Last week, Cooper appeared on The Telegraph’s podcast—The Daily T—to discuss why she believes that figures like Elon Musk and Tommy Robinson are being disingenuous with their concerns surrounding the grooming gangs, and to demand Prime Minister Keir Starmer to launch a national inquiry.

You can listen to the podcast in its entirety here.

Gaia was groomed, abused and enslaved – but then she fought back.

Aged just 14 years old, Gaia Cooper was groomed, raped and held captive by a group of paedophiles. Before long, she was exploited and forced to take part in organised credit card fraud. Once she was in their grasp, Gaia found it impossible to escape this new adult world – a carousel of abuse, crime and drugs.

For more than four years, Gaia endured the horrific abuse before she was finally able to fight back, not only against the men who had stolen her childhood, but the authorities that had fed her directly into their hands.

Modern Slave is out now. Grab your copy here or, better, via your local bookshop or Bookshop.org.