Harriet Harman calls for 'mini inquiry' into race issues raised by grooming gangs scandal Harriet Harman has suggested a "mini inquiry" into issues raised by the grooming gangs scandal and called on Sir Keir Starmer and Kemi Badenoch to discuss "terms of reference".
The grooming gangs scandal is back in the spotlight after Elon Musk hit out at the Labour government for rejecting a new national inquiry into child sexual exploitation in Oldham, saying this should be done at a local level instead.
The Tories also previously said an Oldham inquiry should be done locally and in 2015 commissioned a seven-year national inquiry into child sex abuse, led by Professor Alexis Jay, which looked at grooming gangs.
"I think that whether it's a task force, whether it's more action plans, whether it's a a mini inquiry on this, this is something that we need to develop resilience in," Ms Harman said.
The Labour peer told Sky's political editor Beth Rigby on the Electoral Dysfunction podcast that there should "openness" to a future probe as long it does not repeat the previous investigations.
