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 survivor of a brutal grooming gang has called on the Government to launch a national inquiry into the scandal...

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

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

Sir Keir Starmer has accused tech billionaire Elon Musk and right-wing populists of spreading lies about child abuse grooming gangs and warned “they have crossed a line”.

Sir Keir Starmer stated at Prime Minister’s Questions this week that grooming gang survivors wanted “action” and not another inquiry

Today, we look at the debate over a national inquiry into the grooming gangs scandal playing out in the House of Commons. The issue was voted on because of an amendment to a Labour bill that will introduce changes to the education system.

The Mayor of Greater Manchester, Andy Burnham, has said he thinks there is a case for a "limited national inquiry" into grooming gangs.

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