Reform UK would launch an independent inquiry into grooming gangs if elected into power, its chairman has said. It comes after Elon Musk attacked the UK Government over the issue, saying Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer failed to bring “rape gangs” to justice when he was director of public prosecutions.

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

A push for another national inquiry into grooming gangs, which the Prime Minister labelled as a "wrecking amendment", has been rejected following a vote by MPs. 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”.