Nigel Farage plans to mobilise his new regional power base of Reform councillors to try to force the Government to act on the scandal of child sex grooming gangs.
After winning 677 seats and seizing ten councils in the local elections, the Reform UK leader says his councillors will lobby Home Secretary Yvette Cooper for an inquiry into how men of Pakistani heritage were able to abuse mainly white girls in areas such as Rotherham and Oldham.
The Government has resisted calls for a national inquiry, arguing that it should be carried out at local level.
But Reform says this has been effectively blocked by Labour councillors in the affected areas.
The party's electoral success, including two councils seized from Labour, has changed this dynamic.
