All survivors who have resigned from the government's grooming gangs inquiry panel will consider returning if safeguarding minister Jess Phillips resigns.

The four women who have resigned this week have written to Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood, calling for Ms Phillips to step down and all survivors to be consulted on appointing a senior judge as chair with no major conflicts of interest.

Ms Phillips told parliament on Tuesday suggestions the scope of the inquiry was to be expanded from just grooming gangs were "categorically untrue".

But leaked consultation documents and texts between the safeguarding minister and survivor Fiona Goddard show the survivors' concerns that the scope would be expanded were valid.

The survivors' letter says: "Being publicly contradicted and dismissed b

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