The Conservatives have tabled an amendment proposing an inquiry into grooming gangs, but if the vote passes new laws protecting children will be delayed.

Labour MPs rejected a national inquiry into the historic grooming gangs scandal on Wednesday night. The amendment was voted down by a significant margin in the Commons, with 364 MPs voting against it and 111 in favour,

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

All but two of Shropshire's MPs voted on a Conservative amendment to Labour’s flagship Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill.

Victims want action today, the Prime Minister said, as the Tory leader repeated demands for a national inquiry into rape gangs

A push for another national inquiry into grooming gangs, which the Prime Minister labelled as a "wrecking amendment", has been rejected following a vote by MPs. The Government’s draft child protection legislation cleared its first Commons hurdle on Wednesday following a bitter Prime Minister’s Questions in which Tory leader Kemi Badenoch said failing to back a probe would fuel concerns about a “cover-up”.

The education secretary warned that supporting symbolic Tory calls for a grooming gangs inquiry will kill a children’s safety bill ‘stone dead’