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Kemi Badenoch will unveil plans for a national probe into grooming gangs at a press conference this morning. The Tory leader will set out terms of reference for a full statutory inquiry, which she is calling on Labour to accept.

Mrs Badenoch, who will speak alongside Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp from 10.30am, said: “This is about survivors and what they want. We must give a voice to the voiceless.

“They have told us what an inquiry must include in order to obtain justice. This is what the terms of reference sets out.

“I urge the Government to do the right thing and act now to establish a national statutory inquiry that not only investigates state institutions who let the survivors down, but also any ethnic and religious links that caused these crimes.”

It comes after the Government’s probe was plunged into turmoil after survivors quit the panel.

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