Conservative MP Kemi Badenoch is seeking to force a public inquiry into the grooming gangs scandal, despite Downing Street's opposition.
Kemi Badenoch will push for a Commons vote today on whether to hold a public inquiry into the grooming gangs scandal - as campaigners warned the abuse of young girls is still continuing. The Tory leader will step up pressure for an inquiry by tabling an amendment which would force the government to act. Downing Street last night indicated it would block the move by ordering its MPs to vote against.
Shadow home secretary Chris Philp said the decision showed ‘total moral cowardice from Keir Starmer and his Labour Party. The victims of these heinous child rape gangs deserve honesty, and they deserve the truth.’ Campaigners against child sex abuse also urged the Prime Minister to reconsider. Victims campaigner Dame Jasvinder Sanghera said she ‘fully supported’ a public inquiry - and warned that rape and abuse of young girls by gangs of men was still continuing. ‘Let’s be clear, this is still happening,’ she told Times Radio. ‘This isn’t something that used to happen. This is still happening today. I’m sure the perpetrators of this kind of abuse will look for different ways of manipulating the system so we have to look at this as a whole and have a broader conversation.’ The scandal involved the rape and sexual abuse of thousands of white girls by gangs of predominantly Pakistani-origin men. Downing Street last night indicated it would block the move by ordering its MPs to vote against the bill The Tory leader will step up pressure for an inquiry by tabling an amendment which would force the government to act Dame Jasvinder said the government’s approach to multiculturalism still appeared to be to ‘minimise the risk of offending communities as opposed to actually dealing with the very problem’. Downing Street warned that the planned Tory amendment would wreck the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill, which MPs are due to debate today - and said the government would oppose i
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