Home Secretary to give grooming gangs update after Labour MPs break rank to demand national inquiry

Home Secretary Yvette Cooper will be giving a statement to Parliament on grooming gangs today, the House of Commons has confirmed.

With Labour under increasing pressure to launch a national Public Inquiry into the rape gangs scandal, Cooper will be addressing MPs on “child sexual exploitation and abuse” later on Thursday.

It comes just days after Labour’s own Rotherham and Rochdale MPs – Sarah Champion and Paul Waugh, respectively – broke ranks with the party’s top brass to demand a national probe.

More to follow…