Safeguarding minister Jess Phillips’ decision to block a public inquiry into the Oldham grooming gangs seems, from the outside, to be almost inexplicable. Children were raped and abused by gangs of men while the authorities failed to protect them.

Sir Keir Starmer has responded to attacks from US billionaire and Trump ally Elon Musk over the Labour government’s response to grooming gangs in the UK. Pressure had mounted on the prime minister after safeguarding minister Jess Phillips denied requests for the Home Office to lead a public inquiry into child sexual exploitation and grooming in Oldham.

Elon Musk reopened the scandal surrounding gangs of men who groomed, assaulted, and raped girls across England, calling Keir Starmer, UK's Prime Minister, "complicit in the rape of Britain".

A raft of erratic social media posts by the billionaire tech mogul has put a decades-long child sexual abuse scandal back under the political spotlight. View on euronews

Elon Musk recently attacked UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer and Labour officials on X, on the grooming gangs scandal. This controversy centres on child sexual abuse cases involving gangs, mainly of Pakistani heritage,