MPs voted down the Tories' proposal to launch a fresh inquiry last night - but the issue is not likely to go away.

A raft of erratic social media posts by the billionaire tech mogul has put a decades-long child sexual abuse scandal back under the political spotlight. View on euronews

The debate on 'Grooming Gangs' picked pace after Elon Musk launched a barrage of attacks on PM Keir Starmer on the issue

As debate rages about whether there should be a national public inquiry into a child sex abuse scandal that rocked the country, here are the key issues you need to understand before forming an opinion

The UK’s Conservative Party tried and failed to force PM Keir Starmer into holding a national inquiry into a scandal surrounding so-called child grooming gangs.

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.

Elon Musk has been tweeting incessantly for days about a grooming gang scandal that is setting the political weather in Britain, but the origins of how it came onto the radar of the world's richest man can be traced back a decade.

Elon Musk reopened the scandal surrounding gangs of men who groomed, assaulted, and raped girls across England, calling Keir Starmer, UK's Prime Minister, "complicit in the rape of Britain".

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,