Starmer + Badenoch Clash Over Grooming Inquiry
Newscast
BBC
4.3 • 6.6K Ratings
🗓️ 8 January 2025
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Today, we look at the debate over a national inquiry into the grooming gangs scandal playing out in the House of Commons.
The issue was voted on because of an amendment to a Labour bill that will introduce changes to the education system.
Chris unpacks the politics, education editor Branwen Jeffreys explains the changes, and political correspondent Tom Symonds talks about what victims are calling for.
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| 0:18.3 | That is the sound of the Conservatives losing the vote that they forced to get the government to hold a new national inquiry into child sexual exploitation. |
| 0:28.6 | The subject we've been talking about for a week now, which they've been pushing for. |
| 0:32.9 | But this issue is going to rumble on. |
| 0:35.5 | And this is one of those episodes of Newscast where I'm recording |
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