MPs rejected calls for a new national inquiry into grooming gangs on Wednesday evening, after the issue was forced on to parliament’s agenda by the Conservatives amid pressure from technology billionaire Elon Musk.
In the House of Commons, the government used its majority to reject a Tory amendment to education legislation that proposed a national inquiry. A total of 364 MPs voted against the amendment, while 111 were in favour.
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Ministers were however adamant that the Tory amendment was not the right means to secure an inquiry.
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer described the Conservative amendment to the government’s schools legislation as a “wrecking amendment” because it would block the passage of the bill through parliament if approved. Labour MPs were told to vote against the amendment.
Musk has demanded a national inquiry into grooming gangs in the UK as he launched strong attacks on Starmer and his safeguarding minister Jess Phillips.
A clip of Tory leader Kemi Badenoch calling for an inquiry during prime minister’s questions in the Commons on Wednesday was reposted on X by Musk, with the words “well said”.
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Ministers have repeatedly pointed to an inquiry into child sexual abuse in England and Wales by Professor Alexis Jay in 2022 that put forward 20 recommendations, none of which were implemented by the previous Tory government.
This week Labour ministers announced they were taking forward several of the inquiry’s key recommendations.
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It’s a bit rich, the Tories had the Jay report for years and did nothing, but Musk gets on one and, all of a sudden, they are kicking off about one aspect of it.
It’s the same calculated, coordinated, and synchronized approach the conservative propaganda machine has been using for decades. The narratives, talking points, logical fallacies, and hyprocrisy are nearly-identical across all of 14 eyes and the wider EU.
