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Hello, I'm Susan Hume and this is the Today in Parliament podcast for Wednesday the 22nd of October.

Coming up, the opposition accuses the government of trying to undermine its own inquiry into grooming gangs.

Aren't the victims right when they call it a cover-up?

But the Prime Minister insists the inquiry will not be watered down.

Its scope will not change. It will examine the ethnicity and religion of the offenders.

Also, our former Deputy Prime Minister reflects on her life story.

I remember when, at age 16, I was pregnant with my child, needing a job and a home.

People wrote me off.

And as the Transport Secretary signals progress on a third runway at Heathrow, she reveals that.

One of the highlights of life for me is, the bacon butty on an easy jet flight to a Greek island in the summer.

But first, the Prime Minister has insisted the inquiry into grooming gangs in England and Wales will not be watered down

and that the door is open to those survivors

who resigned this week from the Victims' Panel to return. Four women have stepped down in protest

at the way the inquiry is being set up, claiming a toxic atmosphere and expressing concern

that the remiss of the inquiry risk losing its focus.

Two of the candidates to lead the inquiry have also withdrawn.

At question time, Kemi Badenock insisted Labour had always been reluctant to hold an inquiry or address the ethnicity of the majority of perpetrators.

The opposition leader said the survivors had lost all confidence in the government's inquiry.

So I'm giving my first question to one of them, to Fiona. She said, being dismissed and

contradicted by a minister when you're telling the truth takes you right back to that feeling

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