Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch has defended her party's record on tackling grooming gangs, insisting "I did the bits that I could do" amid mounting pressure following a damning new poll.The ...

Kemi Badenoch defends comment blaming ‘peasants’ for grooming gangs abuse - The Tory leader said she would not be ‘shy’ when ...

The Tories will push for a ban on smartphones in schools to be included in the Government’s education Bill. The Conservatives are tabling an amendment to the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill to ...

Less than six months after the far-right orchestrated racist riots that targeted asylum accommodation and mosques, comes a ...

Kemi Badenoch has blamed “peasants” from “sub-communities” in foreign countries for the grooming gangs crisis. The ...

Yet Kemi Badenoch has no such qualms ... Nazir Afzal, who headed the CPS in the North West, said victims of the grooming gangs he met again this week have been “re-traumatised” by the politica ...

Kemi Badenoch and Laura Trott are pictured with ... in an attempt to force the Government to hold a new national grooming gangs inquiry – a move that, if successful, would have derailed the ...

Here is the wording of the wrecking amendment that Kemi Badenoch laid before the House yesterday to “bring about a national inquiry into grooming gangs”. A total of 364 MPs voted against the ...

Sir Keir Starmer has opened the door to a u-turn on his refusal to hold an inquiry into grooming gangs, Downing Street has confirmed. After safeguarding minister Jess Phillips said a new national ...

It says: “We need a clear and focused statutory national public inquiry into the rape gangs to get to the ... A Labour spokesperson said: “Kemi Badenoch has stooped to a new low, fundraising ...

Senior Conservatives have expressed unease over Kemi Badenoch’s alignment with Elon Musk and Reform UK on the issue of grooming gangs, a topic which has generated significant internal discord.