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Two commentators entered a fierce debate on regarding the UK national inquiry into grooming gangs. Clare Muldoon and Norman Baker clashed during the breakfast show after Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer announced there will be a full national statutory inquiry into grooming gangs. It comes after the Government dismissed calls at the start of the year, arguing that it has already been examined by Professor Alexis Jay in a seven-year inquiry. As a result, Keir Starmer faced criticism for not setting one up, but has now accepted the recommendations of an audit by Baroness Louise Casey into evidence and data on the scale and nature of the group-based child sexual abuse.

Speaking on GB News, Norman said that the inquiry will take three years and will "cost a lot of money", but Clare stated that the MPs who voted against a national inquiry have to be held to account.

Norman replied, "Well, it depends on why they voted against it. We need to look at the motives." Clare shot back, "I think you're being very kind. They should be doing what their constituents want instead of voting for political gain!"

leader Kemi Badenoch for changing his mind about the need for a national inquiry. She also claimed that he had politicised the issue earlier this year when he said that those calling for the inquiry were "jumping on a far-right bandwagon."

Sir Keir has furiously defended his decision. He shot back, ", I think, if I remember rightly, was the minister for children and for women, and I think the record will show that she didn't raise the question of grooming once when she was in power, not once, not one word from the dispatch box on any of this."

He told reporters, "Chris Philp (the shadow home secretary), I think, went to 300-plus meetings when he was in his position in the Home Office and at not one of those meetings did he raise the question of grooming.

"So, I know there's some discussion of this 'far-right bandwagon'. I was actually calling out politicians, nobody else, politicians who in power had said and done nothing, who are now making the claims that they make."

Baroness Louise Casey has stated that a national inquiry should be completed within three years, rather than the two called for by the Tory Party.