Kevin Schofield is Politics Editor of HuffPost UK.
The Conservatives tabled an amendment to the government’s Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill, calling for the probe after the issue shot up the political agenda in recent days.of failing to tackle the issue in a series of inflammatory posts on X, the social media platform he owns.However, the government said parliamentary rules meant that if it was passed, the amendment would have killed the entire bill, which is aimed at protecting vulnerable children.
Ministers have also said a new inquiry is not needed while the government is still implementing the recommendations of Professor Alexis Jay’s report on child sexual abuse, which reported in 2022.In response, the shadow home secretary Chris Philp said: “It is disgusting that Keir Starmer has used his supermajority in parliament to block a national inquiry into the rape gangs scandal.“Labour MPs have put their party ahead of getting to the truth and turned a blind eye to justice for the victims.
During angry clashes at PMQs, he said: “The leader of the opposition has been an MP I think for eight years.“She was the children’s minister. She was the women’s and equalities minister.“It’s only in recent days that she has jumped on the bandwagon.” The Tory leader hit back: “The prime minister is being very specific because I have raised this issue, I have raised it in speeches, I have raised it publicly.
“He knows that as a minister, I would have been speaking on this specific issue I was not a home office minister.”'A Line Has Been Crossed': Keir Starmer Launches Scathing Attack On Elon Musk
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