The row between Kemi Badenoch, Keir Starmer, Elon Musk, and others, centres around a series of high-profile cases where groups of men - mainly of Pakistani descent - were convicted of sexually abusing and raping predominantly young white girls around the UK.

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage has issued an ultimatum to Labour, threatening to launch his own inquiry into grooming gangs if Sir Keir Starmer fails to act by the end of January. Speaking at his party's south east conference in Esher,

Nigel Farage has slammed the grooming gang scandal as one of the “greatest evils that has ever happened to our country”. The Reform UK leader insisted that “we deserve to know the truth” while speaking to party members at a regional conference in Surrey on Friday.