The row between Kemi Badenoch, Keir Starmer, Elon Musk, and others, centres around a series of high-profile cases where groups of men - mainly of Pakistani descent - were convicted of sexually abusing and raping predominantly young white girls around the UK.

Nigel Farage has slammed the grooming gang scandal as one of the “greatest evils that has ever happened to our country”. The Reform UK leader insisted that “we deserve to know the truth” while speaking to party members at a regional conference in Surrey on Friday.

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,