MPs tonight voted against the Tories attempt to hold a national inquiry into grooming gangs.
The amendment to the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill called on Sir Keir Starmer‘s Labour Government to establish a ‘national statutory inquiry into historical child sexual exploitation, focused on grooming gangs’.
But thanks to the premier’s supermajority it was rejected by 364 votes to 111.
The vote came amid Sir Keir coming under a barrage of attacks including from the world’s richest man Elon Musk who has accused him of being ‘complicit in the rape of Britain’.
Chris Philp MP, Shadow Home Secretary, hit out at the Prime Minister and accused Sir Keir of using ‘his supermajority in Parliament to block a national inquiry into the rape gangs…
