A grooming gang survivor in Rotherham has shared her anger and disgust at the vote against a national public inquiry into the scandal last night. Elizabeth, not her real name, told GB News that she “wasn't surprised” that 364 MPs voted against the Tory motion,

Lawmakers in Britain have voted down an amendment to set up a national inquiry into the grooming gangs scandal. The amendment was attached to the Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill, which would have been killed had the vote passed.

Jayne Senior MBE, who first exposed the “industrial-scale abuse” taking place in Rotherham also branded it “sickening” that gangs of abusers are back walking the streets whilst previous recommendations to ensure their ordeals can never happen again have failed to be implemented.

The shadow home secretary has said it is "morally wrong" for the Labour Party to reject a national inquiry into the grooming gangs scandal. MPs voted down the Conservative Party amendment in the Commons,

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”.