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Hello, I'm Sean Curran, and this is yesterday in Parliament from BBC Radio 4.

There were some different faces and voices at Prime Minister's questions on Wednesday,

the 18th of June, but many of the questions will sound rather familiar.

Sakeir Stama missed PMQs because he was travelling back from the G7 summit in Canada.

And so it was his deputy, Angela Rainer, who got to deliver the familiar answer that begins the weekly exchanges.

This morning I had meetings with ministerial colleagues and others,

and in addition to my duties in this house house I shall have further such meetings later today. The Conservative leader,

Kemi Baitnock, doesn't have a deputy and can choose a different stand in every time the Prime

Minister is away. This week, the Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp got the call up. He said survivors of the grooming gang scandal wanted to be closely involved in the National Inquiry into sexual exploitation.

The survivors told us they will only have confidence in an inquiry if it is independently led, has full statutory powers, covers all 50 towns affected, including

Bradford. If those who covered this up are prosecuted. If foreign perpetrators are all deported.

Angela Rainer agreed it was important that people had confidence in the inquiry.

It will be independent. it will have statutory powers,

and we will implement the J-U report, which he will have known about as the shadow minister

in charge at the time, and we'll get on with taking the action.

I hope members of his party will take his tone in making sure the whole house put the victims first

and we all work

together to get to the bottom of it. Within hours of landing back in the UK, Sir Keir Stama

chaired a meeting of the government's emergency committee, Cobra, about the situation in the

Middle East. The deputy leader of the Liberal Democrats, Daisy Cooper, feared history was about

to repeat itself.

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