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

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

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

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