Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch has met survivors of grooming gangs in Oldham and Rotherham, describing the meeting as "quite shocking".

Badenoch says she is shocked to hear the prime minister say actions were not taken under the previous government. "He knows full well we accepted 18 of the 20 recommendations in the Jay Inquiry ...

Mrs Badenoch warned that failing to back an inquiry ... the recommendations of the investigation led by Professor Alexis Jay rather than open a new inquiry. If it was passed, the amendment would ...

Badenoch has been demanding a national inquiry ... An independent report, published by Prof Alexis Jay in 2014, estimated 1,400 girls had been abused in Rotherham. She would later go on to lead ...