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.

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage insisted Sir Keir must apologise for his "insults" towards campaigners and politicians demanding a national inquiry.

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.