Starmer claims Kemi 'lack of action' in office as she says 'no stone be left unturned'

KEMI Badenoch has branded the grooming gang cover-ups "one of the biggest scandals Britain has ever seen".

- Steph Spyro

Survivors and campaigners joined the Tory leader in London for a press conference yesterday, where she insisted she was not politicising the issue.

They warned that Sir Keir Starmer's grooming gang inquiry does not go far enough after the Prime Minister finally bowed to pressure to commission a probe into the historic sexual exploitation of thousands of children, predominantly by men of Pakistani origin.

Asked if the actions of past Conservative governments should be scrutinised, Mrs Badenoch said: "There should be no stone left unturned. Where there is evidence, that should be looked at. The actions we have seen over the last 30 years have shown that work has been done, but that work was not enough.

"But this inquiry needs to look at those institutions that actively covered stuff up. We are talking about those who hid evidence, those who asked victims to go away, those who told people what they were saying was not true. That would be a completely different order of magnitude to any sort of state failure we have seen. This is why we say this is one of the biggest scandals Britain has ever seen."