PM orders National Crime Agency investigation in move branded a ‘desperate smokescreen’ by shadow home secretary
PM orders National Crime Agency investigation in move branded a ‘desperate smokescreen’ by shadow home secretary
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New probe and statutory public inquiry will be a means to get ‘truth and justice’, home secretary says
The Prime Minister was scrambling to appear decisive after resisting action on the scandal for months.
PM doubles down on claim that those calling for national inquiry were ‘jumping on far-Right bandwagon’ after about-turn
The prime minister has bowed to pressure to agree to set up an inquiry into grooming gangs with legal powers to call witnesses
The CPS dropped espionage charges against two Britons after involvement of Jonathan Powell
PM forced to cave in to clamour for statutory inquiry despite earlier dismissing them as amplifying far right demands
Keir Starmer bows to pressure for inquiry into grooming gang scandal
