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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Politics
Noah Vickers

City Hall Tories demand Sadiq Khan set up grooming gang inquiry

London mayor Sadiq Khan is facing demands to organise a City Hall-led inquiry into grooming gangs - (PA)

Sir Sadiq Khan is facing demands from City Hall Conservatives to organise a London-level inquiry into the issue of historic child sexual exploitation.

In a letter to the mayor from his former election rival Lord Bailey, the London Assembly member claimed there is “a strong possibility” that grooming gangs have operated in the capital, and that a City Hall-led inquiry would have “significant resources available to draw conclusions from across all thirty-two of London’s boroughs”.

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