Grooming gangs scandal timeline: What happened, what inquiries there were and how Starmer was involved - after Elon Musk's accusations
Sir Keir was head of the Crown Prosecution Service for five years when grooming gangs were being investigated.
Chair of child sex abuse inquiry denounces Musk over grooming gangs
Keir Starmer has received a boost in his grooming gangs row with Elon Musk after the head of the national child sex abuse inquiry backed the Prime Minister. Professor Alexis Jay backed Sir Keir by saying there is no need for a new national investigation into the issue.
What is the UK 'grooming gangs' scandal seized on by Elon Musk?
Elon Musk recently attacked UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer and Labour officials on X, on the grooming gangs scandal. This controversy centres on child sexual abuse cases involving gangs, mainly of Pakistani heritage,
Why Musk Waded Into UK Child Grooming Gangs Scandal
Britain’s government has been pushed onto the defensive by comments from Elon Musk accusing Prime Minister Keir Starmer of complicity in a decades-old scandal over child sexual exploitation gangs.Listen to the Bloomberg UK Politics podcast on Apple,
How the grooming gangs scandal was covered up
Safeguarding minister Jess Phillips’ decision to block a public inquiry into the Oldham grooming gangs seems, from the outside, to be almost inexplicable. Children were raped and abused by gangs of men while the authorities failed to protect them.
Grooming gangs scandal revival ignores local action
Attempting to introduce some facts into the furore over grooming gangs may well be in vain but here goes, writes LGC editor Sarah Calkin Today's news
Defiant Jess Phillips says Elon Musk is 'rich man' who 'knows absolutely nothing' about grooming gangs
Responding for the first time to the erratic tech billionaire, Ms Phillips said Mr Musk "knows absolutely nothing about the subject he's talking about" and she wouldn't make her decisions based on a "
UK leader hits back at Elon Musk’s ‘lies’ over handling of child sex abuse scandal
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has criticized those “spreading lies and misinformation” about child sex grooming gangs in the United Kingdom, responding to an online storm whipped up by Elon Musk.
Keir Starmer Responds to Elon Musk Over Grooming Scandal
The U.K. prime minister has responded to Elon Musk over comments the world's richest man made against him regarding the Rotherham grooming scandal.
Why are people calling for a review of grooming gangs cover ups?
Sir Keir Starmer has responded to attacks from US billionaire and Trump ally Elon Musk over the Labour government’s response ...
Musk comments implicating British officials in grooming case could fracture US-UK relations
President-elect Donald Trump said he didn't know the specifics behind Musk's incendiary comments but said he was doing "a ...
Who are the key people in the grooming gangs row?
Labour MP Jess Phillips has said she feels more in danger after Elon Musk falsely branded her a 'rape genocide apologist'.
Conservatives to seek support for new child grooming inquiry in symbolic vote
Home Office minister Jess Phillips has meanwhile said she faced increased risk to her safety since Elon Musk called her a ...
Keir Starmer warns Tories to 'think twice' over grooming gangs attack
Keir Starmer blasted the Tories for using the Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill to try to force a vote on a national ...
‘Grooming gangs are being cynically weaponised to divide us’
The renewed focus on grooming gangs such as the one in Rochdale has been alarmingly weaponised to conflate these crimes with ...
The troubling history of UK’s grooming gangs and the politics surrounding it
The United Kingdom has long struggled with the murky history of so-called grooming gangs, which have sexually abused ...
Tory Robert Jenrick left squirming in car crash interview on child grooming gangs
The former Tory leadership candidate - now Kemi Badenoch's shadow Justice Secretary - was skewered by the BBC's Nick Robinson ...