The Prime Minister was scrambling to appear decisive after resisting action on the scandal for months.

The prime minister has bowed to pressure to agree to set up an inquiry into grooming gangs with legal powers to call witnesses

The Prime Minister was scrambling to appear decisive after resisting action on the scandal for months.

New probe and statutory public inquiry will be a means to get ‘truth and justice’, home secretary says

At last Sir Keir Starmer has announced a national inquiry into the mass-rape gangs prowling the streets of our towns and cities to target young girls for sex. And not before time.

PM forced to cave in to clamour for statutory inquiry despite earlier dismissing them as amplifying far right demands

PM orders National Crime Agency investigation in move branded a ‘desperate smokescreen’ by shadow home secretary

The Labour Party was adamant that a national investigation was unnecessary but Baroness Casey’s review has forced yet another about-turn

Yvette Cooper revealed details of a national investigation that Sir Keir Starmer had ruled out before the Casey report forced a rethink

PM doubles down on claim that those calling for national inquiry were ‘jumping on far-Right bandwagon’ after about-turn

Sir Keir Starmer bowed to months of mounting pressure over the issue ahead of the publication of a new report by Louise Casey