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

MPs have rejected a Conservative bid to push for another national inquiry into grooming gangs by 364 votes to 111. The Government’s draft child protection legislation cleared its first Commons hurdle on Wednesday following a bitter Prime Minister’s Questions in which Tory leader Kemi Badenoch said failing to back a probe would fuel concerns about a “cover-up”.