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‘Absolutely sickening’ for Tories to vote against child protection legislation, education secretary says – UK politics live
Bridget Phillipson says Tory approach to bill will ‘kill it stone dead’ after PM says opposition more interested in retweets than safeguardingLaura Trott, the shadow education secretary, defended her party’s call for a new inquiry into grooming gangs in her interviews this morning. Explaining why the party wanted an inquiry now, when it did not propose one when it was in office, she told Sky News:There is much more information that has come to light, this is an evolving picture. There is more that we need to understand and, as a result, it makes sense to do a national inquiry alongside taking forward further steps to help support and protect victims.This is about new information which is coming forward about the extent of what’s happening and us needing more information to take this forward.I would like this to be done on a cross-party basis, where we talk about these things, we are able to have policy debates, without people calling each other names.That this house, while welcoming...