Manchester Labour Mayor Andy Burnham Breaks Ranks with Keir Starmer to Support Grooming Gang Inquiry

'Not a far right obsession!' First Labour MP breaks ranks with Starmer to demand national inquiry into 'unspeakable rape gangs'

Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham already urged the Prime Minister to initiate a 'limited' national inquiry

North Northants Council asks for inquiry into grooming gangs

The Labour group on the Conservative-led council says the authority needs to debate the proposal.

City Hall Tories demand London grooming gang inquiry

The mayor’s team has in turn criticised the ‘woeful failure of the last Government’ to implement Alexis Jay’s inquiry recommendations

'I get the point Andy Burnham is making, but I disagree with him'

The Greater Manchester mayor has said 'there is a case' for a new national inquiry into grooming gangs

Downing Street insists no new inquiry into grooming gangs, but says it will be ‘guided by victims’

Downing Street has rejected suggestions that Keir Starmer is wavering in his insistence that a national inquiry into grooming gangs is not necessary.

Andy Burnham backs inquiry into grooming gangs

The Manchester mayor says ministers were right to reject Conservative ‘opportunism’ but thinks there is a case for a limited national inquiry to hold people to account