Keir Starmer has slapped down Andy Burnham after he broke ranks with the prime minister to call for a national inquiry into the grooming gangs scandal. The prime minister has insisted that the government’s priority should be to implement the recommendations from Professor Alexis Jay’s own inquiry into child sexual abuse,

The UK’s Conservative Party tried and failed to force PM Keir Starmer into holding a national inquiry into a scandal surrounding so-called child grooming gangs.

Andy Burnham has backed calls for a national inquiry into grooming despite Sir Keir Starmer ’s refusal to launch one. The Labour Mayor of Greater Manchester said he believed there was scope for a “limited national inquiry ” that draws on local reviews into historic child sexual exploitation.

Victims want action today, the Prime Minister said, as the Tory leader repeated demands for a national inquiry into rape gangs

The United Kingdom’s Labour Party blocked a Conservative Party amendment that would have forced a nationwide inquiry into the decades-long

The debate on 'Grooming Gangs' picked pace after Elon Musk launched a barrage of attacks on PM Keir Starmer on the issue

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer clashed with opposition leader Kemi Badenoch on Wednesday (January 8) over the need for a new national inquiry into grooming gangs.

After safeguarding minister Jess Phillips said a new national probe into the scandal was still on the table, the prime minister’s official spokesman said the government would grant one if victims’ gro

The Prime Minister will be ‘guided by the victims’, his official spokesman said, following a Commons showdown over a new inquiry.