The Conservatives have tabled an amendment proposing an inquiry into grooming gangs, but if the vote passes new laws protecting children will be delayed.

A motion by the UK’s opposition Conservative Party to have a national inquiry into grooming gangs was met with utter rejection by the Keir Starmer government, leading to a political whirlpool in the house of commons in Britain.

The United Kingdom’s Labour Party blocked a Conservative Party amendment that would have forced a nationwide inquiry into the decades-long