UK Parliament Liberals Block National Inquiry Into Migrant Grooming Gangs

The United Kingdom’s Labour Party blocked a Conservative Party amendment that would have forced a nationwide inquiry into the decades-long epidemic of migrant grooming gangs.

The Conservatives proposed an amendment to the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill that would compel the government to launch a national investigation into the grooming gangs that have terrorized the nation for decades, according the House of Commons records. The amendment was voted down by 364 to 111, with Labour and Conservatives voting down party lines.

“Bang on from Kemi Badenoch – Starmer’s argument against an inquiry is that government can’t do two things at once – it can’t implement previous actions and have an inquiry at the same time – that’s just obviously nonsense,” Niel O’Brien, Conservative party MP, said on X.

The vote comes days after Jess Phillips, Labour Party member and minister for the Home Office for Safeguarding and Violence Against Women and Girls, blocked an inquiry by the town of Oldham into Labour Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s conduct while overseeing the prosecution of a migrant grooming gang’s sexual abuse of children in the town from 2011 to 2014. The situation came to international attention when billionaire and Donald Trump confidant Elon Musk expressed his discontent with Phillips on X.