'PM has focused on victims rather than grandstanding'

SIR Keir Starmer has been focused on the victims of grooming gangs and not grandstanding, Chancellor Rachel Reeves has suggested, after the Prime Minister committed to a national

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inquiry. She said that Sir Keir has been looking at “actually doing the practical things to ensure that something like this never happens again”.

After initially resisting pressure to implement a full probe, the Prime Minister said he had read “every single word” of an independent report into child sexual exploitation by Baroness Louise Casey and would accept her recommendation for the investigation.

The Home Secretary, Yvette Cooper, is set to address Parliament today about the findings of the review.

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage described the move as a “welcome U-turn”, while Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch called on Sir Keir to apologise for “six wasted months”.