The Reform UK leader repeated his demands for a national inquiry at his party’s north-west regional conference on Saturday.

The Prime Minister is under “immense” pressure to call a national inquiry into grooming gangs, Nigel Farage has said as he reiterated his demand for a new review.

Comparing previous inquiries to a “shotgun approach”, the Reform UK leader told his party’s north-west regional conference on Saturday that a new inquiry needed to be a “rifle shot” dealing with gangs “predominantly of Pakistani origin” preying on “young, in most-cases working-class white girls”.

He said: “Unless we get to the bottom of what has happened here, to understand the full extent and scale of what has happened here, to understand the motives of those who perpetrated these crimes – which frankly I believe are more than likely to be deeply racist in nature – unless we confront this head on, we are never going to have a path to stopping........

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