The United Kingdom’s Labour Party blocked a Conservative Party amendment that would have forced a nationwide inquiry into the decades-long

British Members of Parliament, MPs, have voted against a new national inquiry into grooming gangs. MPs rejected the Conservatives’ attempt to force a new national inquiry on grooming gangs. The Tories’ amendment to the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill was voted down by 364 votes to 111,

Cumbrian MPs have joined with their colleagues in rejecting a Conservative push for another national inquiry into grooming gangs.

A push for another national inquiry into grooming gangs, which the Prime Minister labelled as a "wrecking amendment", has been rejected following a vote by MPs. The Government’s draft child protection legislation cleared its first Commons hurdle on Wednesday following a bitter Prime Minister’s Questions in which Tory leader Kemi Badenoch said failing to back a probe would fuel concerns about a “cover-up”.

BASINGSTOKE'S MP Luke Murphy voted against establishing a national inquiry into grooming gangs. A bid by the Conservatives to launch a new national inquiry into the grooming gangs scandal was shot down by Labour MPs who voted against the amendment to the Children's Wellbeing Bill by 364 to 111 on January 8.