There are some issues so big, they refuse to stay out of the headlines for very long – and the grooming gangs scandal is certainly one of those.

The latest chapter in this horrific story makes particularly tough reading for the government.

Four of the victims on the panel for the national inquiry announced earlier this year by Labour (after plenty of public and political pressure) have quit, saying they are not being listened to.

After the fire and fury at the start of this year, it’s hard to imagine a news story that would make Sir Keir Starmer more uncomfortable than this one… with the possible exception of an asylum seeker taking a small boat back over to the UK after being deported to France.

The PM will have known Kemi Badenoch was almost certainly going to bring this up at this a

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