Keir Starmer has slapped down Andy Burnham after he broke ranks with the prime minister to call for a national inquiry into the grooming gangs scandal. The prime minister has insisted that the government’s priority should be to implement the recommendations from Professor Alexis Jay’s own inquiry into child sexual abuse,

Andy Burnham has backed calls for a national inquiry into grooming despite Sir Keir Starmer ’s refusal to launch one. The Labour Mayor of Greater Manchester said he believed there was scope for a “limited national inquiry ” that draws on local reviews into historic child sexual exploitation.

The United Kingdom’s Labour Party blocked a Conservative Party amendment that would have forced a nationwide inquiry into the decades-long