5 hours ago UK politics latest: Majority of Labour voters oppose Starmer on grooming gangs inquiry, poll finds

Greater Manchester mayor Andy Burnham has also suggested he favours a ‘limited national inquiry’

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5 hours ago 'I get the point Andy Burnham is making, but I disagree with him': Minister rejects Mayor's call

The Greater Manchester mayor has said 'there is a case' for a new national inquiry into grooming gangs

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3 hours ago UK officials 'monitoring' Elon Musk's social media as 'possible security risk'

Entrepreneur’s social media posts are being tracked by Government officials, according to reports

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6 hours ago Minister rejects Andy Burnham’s call for new national grooming gangs inquiry

Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy said she disagreed with the mayor for Greater Manchester, who has expressed his support for a fresh investigation.

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6 hours ago Now Harriet Harman joins calls for a  new inquiry into grooming gangs as pressure mounts on Keir Starmer

The party grandee suggested the Government should show an 'openness' to a future probe, although she said the PM was 'right' to resist a repeat of previous work.

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15 hours ago JAN MOIR: God knows why Elon Musk bothers with our grubby politics but I, for one, am grateful that he does...

What with everything going down in America, God knows why Elon Musk bothers to concern himself with grubby British politics on this grim husk of an island.

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23 hours ago Latest London Stab Victim Highlights Problem Of Knives, Gangs And Grooming

Latest London Stab Victim Highlights Problem Of Knives, Gangs And Grooming  Barron's

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25 hours ago Labour shambles on grooming gangs probe: Andy Burnham says there SHOULD be a 'limited' national inquiry into scandal just hours after Cabinet minister insists the idea has been 'ruled out'

Manchester mayor Andy Burnham waded in just hours after Foreign Secretary David Lammy suggested such a probe had been 'ruled out'.

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24 hours ago Fact check: How many children have been the victims of grooming gangs?

Full Fact has found a widely-shared estimate that a million children have been victims is not reliable, but the true total remains unclear.

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27 hours ago Keir Starmer skips grooming gang vote despite ordering his MPs to vote against it

Downing Street insisted the prime minister had a ‘pre-existing diary commitment’

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25 hours ago Grooming gang face life in prison for 'appalling catalogue of rape' after targeting 10 women in the space of just two years

The Romanian-born gang, based at flats in Dundee, face life in prison for preying on the women who were mostly already troubled by personal issues.

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30 hours ago Religion, police and education leaders unite with grooming survivors to demand immediate government action

Exclusive: A coalition made up of 65 charities is pushing Yvette Cooper to act on key recommendations from child sexual abuse inquiry

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26 hours ago Oldham grooming gang survivor says her 'whole life was smashed apart' by scandal as she bravely speaks out following government's decision against public inquiry

Sam Walker Roberts, 31, from Oldham, has been calling for a multi-agency inquiry into the failings for many years and has waived her right to anonymity.

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33 hours ago Labour chaos over grooming gangs probe as Cabinet minister says national inquiry has been 'ruled out' after Commons vote

Foreign Secretary David Lammy suggested such a probe had been categorically rejected after a Commons bid to force the move was defeated last night.

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26 hours ago Rotherham grooming gang survivor who found her rapist a mile from her house after he was released from prison blasts Keir Starmer for 'point scoring' and 'insulting the public' over the scandal

A woman who was repeatedly raped as a teenager told MailOnline how 'angry' she was after this week's comments by the Prime Minister on grooming gangs.

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27 hours ago Romanian grooming gang who ran human trafficking ring Scots flats face jail

Police launched Operation Recloir in late 2021 to target a gang of suspected human traffickers in the Tayside area.

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27 hours ago Starmer not wavering over national grooming gang inquiry, No 10 insists

The Prime Minister will be ‘guided by the victims’, his official spokesman said, following a Commons showdown over a new inquiry.

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29 hours ago Elon Musk's influence on grooming gangs debate shows what chaos a hostile foreign state could cause, Government watchdog says

Jonathan Hall, the independent review of state threats legislation, said Mr Musk's recent actions presented a 'canary in the coalmine moment' for the UK.

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29 hours ago Andy Burnham 'not opposed' to new national inquiry into grooming gangs

His comments came the morning after MPs voted against a call for a new inquiry

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36 hours ago Jess Phillips faced ‘deluge of hate’ after Elon Musk grooming gangs comments

Mr Musk’s comments followed Labour’s decision to decline a Whitehall-led inquiry into child sexual abuse.

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