Global superstar and campaigners join Gazette's fight for Preston Davey

Music icon and campaigner Ellie Goulding is just one of the high profile celebrities who has backed The Gazette’s call for a public inquiry into the death of little Preston Davey.
The ‘Starry Eyed’ singer, who has sold more than 27 million albums and 216 million singles worldwide and accumulated 43 billion streams, is ranked among the best-selling British female artists of the 21st century.
Ellie has signed the ‘Preston Davey deserved better, call for a national inquiry’ petition set up by The Gazette, sister title the Lancashire Post and backed by Blackpool MP Chris Webb.
She has added her voice to more than 60,000 others demanding answers about how a little boy could so catastrophically be failed by the safeguarding procedures designed to protect him.
Ellie has lent her support alongside fellow campaigner Carrie Johnson, wife of former Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Hetti Barkworth-Nanton, Chair of the Board at Refuge, England’s largest specialist domestic abuse service provider. Hetti is widely recognised for her work in supporting victims of domestic abuse, receiving a CBE in the 2024 New Year Honours and a Pride of Britain Award in 2024.
As well as signing the petition all three prominent figures have shared Preston’s tragic story in a bid to encourage Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer to agree to a national inquiry into the safeguarding failures that cost a ‘happy and bubbly’ baby boy his life.
Blackpool MP Chris Webb has also raised the matter directly with No.10 and personally asked the Prime Minister to establish a public inquiry.
Ellie Goulding and Carrie Johnson said: “As mothers of young children, we were horrified by the tragic death of little Preston Davey at the hands of those who were supposed to love and protect him.
“The details of his case are deeply distressing, not least because so many opportunities to intervene appear to have been missed.
“Serious questions remain about how this could have happened and whether similar failings are occurring elsewhere. That’s why we have signed this petition for a public national inquiry.”
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