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Labour Parliamentarians Shut Down Conservative Party Bid To Launch National Inquiry Into U.K. ‘Rape Gangs’

The vote follows a fierce debate earlier in the day between the prime minister and the Conservative party leader, Kemi Badenoch.

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Prime Minister Starmer, left, and the new Tory Party chief, Kemi Badenoch, right. Christopher Furlong, left, Leon Neal, right/Getty Images
NOVI ZHUKOVSKY
NOVI ZHUKOVSKY

The British parliament has voted down an effort, spearheaded by Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch, to launch a new national inquiry into a series of child sex abuse incidents perpetrated in British towns by gangs of predominantly Pakistani men between 2004 and 2011. 

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NOVI ZHUKOVSKY
NOVI ZHUKOVSKY

Ms. Zhukovsky studied economics and government at Dartmouth College.

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