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Keir Starmer and Kemi Badenoch clash over a national inquiry into grooming gangs


Published on 2025-01-08 17:40:46 - BBC
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  • Talking about why she thinks a new national inquiry is needed into grooming gangs, Kemi Badenoch said the Independent Inquiry into Child Sex Abuse (IICSA), which concluded in October 2022, "wasn't about the rape gang scandal". She said: "in its 468 pages it mentioned Rotherham just once".

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