Chris Philp and Wilfred Frost on Sky News

Chris Philp has been accused of using an “excuse” to explain why the Tories did not call for their own national inquiry into grooming gangs when they were in power.

Sky News’Wilfred Frost tore into the shadow home secretary, who held ministerial positions in the last Conservative government, after Philp tried to attack Labour for only calling for a new national probe now.

The current government initially refused to organise another inquiry into the scandal when the issue resurfaced in January this year.

But, prime minister Keir Starmer suddenly U-turned over the weekend after receiving the recommendations of an independent report by Louise Casey on the scandal, saying it was the “right thing to do”.

On Sky News this morning, Philp claimed Starmer had to be “dragged here, kicking and screaming”.

He added: “He’s not doing this because he wants to, or because he believes in it,........

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