The UK’s opposition Conservative Party will seek a vote in parliament on Wednesday calling for a national inquiry into so-called child grooming gangs, in an effort to pose a political problem for Keir Starmer’s Labour government while winning the attention of billionaire Elon Musk.

A Conservative Party amendment calling for a national inquiry on grooming gangs has been rejected in the Commons. The amendment to Labour’s flagship Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill received 111 Ayes and 364 Noes,

British lawmakers voted against an amendment to hold a national inquiry into the U.K. grooming scandal, amid international pressure from Elon Musk and others.

An attempt by the Conservatives to have the government set up a national inquiry into grooming gangs has been voted down by 364 votes to 111 votes, a margin of 253. The amendment was attached to the Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill,

Labour MPs have blocked an attempt to initiate a national inquiry into grooming gangs. The amendment, put forward by Conservative MPs, would have piled pressure on the Government to hold a statutory inquiry into historic child sexual exploitation.

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

Your reactions across our website and inbox as yesterday Keir Starmer along with frontbenchers abstained on the vote for a national inquiry into the grooming gangs scandal. The Conservatives also hit out at Rachel Reeves over the economy.