Yvette Cooper is preparing to make a major grooming gangs announcement after Sir Keir Starmer's inquiry U-turn over the weekend. The Home Secretary, who just last month rejected fresh calls for a nationwide probe,

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.

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.