UK Tories Fail in Bid to Force Starmer to Hold Rape Gang Probe
- Tory amendment to government bill falls by 111 votes to 364
- Elon Musk brought issue to fore with posts attacking Labour
Keir Starmer
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The UK’s opposition Conservative Party tried and failed to force Prime Minister Keir Starmer into holding a national inquiry into a scandal surrounding so-called child grooming gangs.
After the billionaire Tesla boss Elon Musk pushed the decades-old issue of child sexual exploitation in British towns by abusers of predominantly Pakistani heritage onto UK newspaper front covers, the Tories sought on Wednesday to force the government into a deeper probe by putting forward an amendment to its Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill.