Jess Phillips has said MPs can jump on the bandwagon of combating grooming gangs and child sexual exploitation – but “it is action that is needed”. In an off-the-cuff speech, the safeguarding minister argued there was a lack of “actual fundamental change on the ground” when the Conservatives were in power and said accepting recommendations does not change people’s lives.

Safeguarding minister Jess Phillips says she faced a “deluge of hate” after tech billionaire Elon Musk used his X social media platform to accuse her of being a “rape genocide apologist”. Mr Musk’s comments,

A raft of erratic social media posts by the billionaire tech mogul has put a decades-long child sexual abuse scandal back under the political spotlight. View on euronews

Elon Musk recently attacked UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer and Labour officials on X, on the grooming gangs scandal. This controversy centres on child sexual abuse cases involving gangs, mainly of Pakistani heritage,