Tory leader says there was a failure to ‘join dots’, taking a different view to police on how to address issue

The row between Kemi Badenoch, Keir Starmer, Elon Musk, and others, centres around a series of high-profile cases where groups of men - mainly of Pakistani descent - were convicted of sexually abusing and raping predominantly young white girls around the UK.

Kemi Badenoch has dramatically failed in her attempt to sabotage the government's child welfare legislation in a bid to get another national inquiry into grooming gangs - see hjow your MP voted

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

Keir Starmer has slammed Kemi Badenoch for demanding a national inquiry into child grooming gangs despite never mentioning it while she was a minister. The Conservative Party is planning on voting down Labour’s Children Wellbeing and Schools Bill this afternoon in favour of an amendment calling for a fresh probe.

The Tory leader's spokesman said she didn't need to meet with victims, because she's read all about it in the media - and had no current plans to meet with anyone - but denied she was jumping on an El

In a shocking move, Sir Keir Starmer whipped his MPs to vote down the Conservative amendment to their child safety and education Bill, which would have blocked the legislation from going forward on the grounds it doesn't include the commitment to a new probe.

A Labour minister has rejected Kemi Badenoch’s call for a full public inquiry into the grooming gangs scandal. Alex Davies-Jones said the government was focused on implementing the recommendation of a previous inquiry into the issue,

Kemi Badenoch has not met any grooming or child sexual abuse victims as part of her campaign for a national inquiry into the scandal, her spokesman has said.

In an article for The Telegraph last week, Jenrick said that the over-representation of men from Pakistani heritage in the gangs was the result of “mass migration… importing hundreds of thousands of people from alien cultures, who possess medieval attitudes towards women”.

Lawmakers from the ruling Labour Party have slammed the opposition for attempting to kill the Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill by tabling an amendment that would force the new inquiry, while blocking the bill at the same time.