Tempers flared this week after Labour was accused of quietly backtracking on plans to investigate grooming gangs – and doing it just as Parliament headed into recess, leaving the Commons virtually empty, according to the Telegraph.
Tory MPs were left fuming as news broke that the Home Office would now leave it up to local councils to decide whether or not to launch inquiries into child exploitation. Critics say this hands-off approach risks letting serious abuse slip through the cracks, especially in areas where cover-ups and institutional failures have already come to light in the past.
