Liverpool MP Dan Carden is the first Labour MP to break ranks and call for an inquiry.

A Labour MP has backed calls for a national inquiry into grooming gangs, urging Sir Keir Starmer to “use the full power of the state to deliver justice”.

Dan Carden, who represents Liverpool Walton, is the first Labour MP to break ranks and call for an inquiry.

Speaking to his local paper, The Liverpool Echo, Mr Carden said: “The public compassion for the victims, thousands of young British working-class girls and children is real. The public call for justice must be heeded.

“It is shocking that people in positions of power could have covered up and refused to act to avoid confronting racial or cultural issues or because victims were poor and working class.

“We must question and challenge the orthodoxy of progressive liberal multiculturalism that led to authorities failing to act. We need a new doctrine to take our multi-ethnic society into the future.”

Insisting that the issue was “not an obsession of the far-right”, he said he was speaking out as “over the decades there have been far too few Labour voices expressing clear disgust and outrage at these heinous crimes, their cover-up and the lack of action.”

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