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Government votes down new national grooming gang inquiry
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January 8, 2025
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13:31Now PlayingLabour has used its huge majority to vote down a Conservative call for a new national inquiry into grooming gangs.
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The vote came at the end of a debate on the Children's Wellbeing Bill and would have killed the legislation, had it been successful.
At a fiery Prime Minister's Questions earlier, Sir Keir Starmer said that was "shortsighted and misguided" of the Conservatives. Opposition leader Kemi Badenoch said a new inquiry was the only way to "join the dots" and hold people to account.
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