Starmer on Saturday said he had accepted the need for a national inquiry into grooming gangs on the recommendation of Baroness Louise Casey, whose near 200-page report into the scandal will be published on Monday.

After years of public outcry, multiple local reviews, and political hesitation, the UK government has announced a full national statutory inquiry into grooming gangs and institutional failures that enabled decades of child sexual exploitation.

Sir Keir Starmer has ordered a full-scale national inquiry into the rape gangs scandal, GB News can disclose. The Prime Minister said that he had decided to accept a recommendation from Baroness Casey of Blackstock,