Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch warned "we have already lost months" after the Prime Minister repeatedly rejected calls for a national inquiry into one of Britain's most shameful scandals.

After years of public outcry, multiple local reviews, and political hesitation, the UK government has announced a full national statutory inquiry into grooming gangs and institutional failures that enabled decades of child sexual exploitation.

Starmer on Saturday said he had accepted the need for a national inquiry into grooming gangs on the recommendation of Baroness Louise Casey, whose near 200-page report into the scandal will be published on Monday.