Britain's Home Secretary announced there would be a number of new local inquiries into decade-old allegations of child grooming, weeks after Elon Musk accused British Prime Minister Keir Starmer of failings.

Elon Musk forced the Government into commissioning new grooming gangs inquiries, a minister has admitted. Chris Bryant, a junior culture minister, said it was “certainly true” that the billionaire owner of X had “expedited” fresh investigations into the scandal.

The minister suggested her life had been turned upside down after Mr Musk used his X platform to accuse her of being a ‘rape genocide apologist’.

Home Secretary Yvette Cooper says government will also undertake a ‘rapid’ review of child sexual abuse in the UK.

It’s understood that the Home Secretary Yvette Cooper will announce a plan to implement local inquiries into grooming gangs in a statement to the Commons later.

Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy said that she does not believe ‘that this Government is being driven by what happens on social media’.

Home secretary Yvette Cooper has announced a £10m plan for a series of local inquiries into grooming gangs, saying "far too little action has been taken" on the issue. In a statement to the Commons, Cooper said despite previous inquiries into child sexual exploitation "victims were ignored,

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Yvette Cooper has announced support for government-backed local inquiries into grooming gangs, in what will be seen as a partial climb down on the issue.The home secretary made the announcement on Thursday in response to calls for a national inquiry into the scandal from the Conservatives,

The home secretary has announced the professionals who work with children will face criminal sanctions if they do not report child sexual abuse. Yvette Cooper told MPs that a “significant package of measures” will be announced by the government in the next few weeks aimed at tackling online child sexual exploitation.

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The British government says it will support a series of local inquiries into organized child sexual abuse in the wake of a furor largely stoked by the world’s richest man Elon Musk.