Home Secretary Yvette Cooper to give rape gangs update after Labour MPs break rank to demand national inquiry

Home Secretary Yvette Cooper will be giving a statement to Parliament on grooming gangs today, the House of Commons has confirmed.

With Labour under increasing pressure to launch a national Public Inquiry into the rape gangs scandal, Cooper will be addressing MPs on “child sexual exploitation and abuse” at 2pm on Thursday.

It comes just days after Labour’s own Rotherham and Rochdale MPs – Sarah Champion and Paul Waugh, respectively – broke ranks with the party’s top brass to demand a national probe.

And, in new polling exclusively shared with GB News today, Champion and Waugh appear to have the backing of an overwhelming majority of Britons.

The data, from pollsters at Friderichs Advisory and JL Partners, shows that almost three quarters (73 per cent) of the country support a Public Inquiry – while 14 per cent oppose one.