Labour politician ‘wanted teenage girl to show him her underwear’

A former Labour councillor caught grooming a child had helped draft the Online Safety Act, a court heard. Liron Velleman, 30, was caught by a decoy cop posing as a 13-year-old girl in a Met sting operation. The former Barnet councillor, who campaigned with Sir Keir Starmer in 2022, sent naked photos to the decoy officer and asked whether she was at home alone and to see her in her school uniform. An organiser for anti-racist group Hope Not Hate,…