Plans for a national inquiry into grooming gangs are underway, but will the inquiry actually happen? The Labour-led probe has not yet started and has almost been derailed by survivors on the victim liaison panel dropping out, complaints about transparency and concerns about the scope of the inquiry. Today, Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch set out her party’s preferred terms of reference for the inquiry – a move she insisted was not party political, but one that she hopes Labour will act on.

Labour needs to show it has listened – even if that means taking recommendations from its political opponents

The Tories want a judge-led inquiry which has a hard two-year limit, that investigates the ‘deliberate cover-up’ of child sexual exploitation by councils, police – and even the government, if

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