The UK’s opposition Conservative Party will seek a vote in parliament on Wednesday calling for a national inquiry into so-called child grooming gangs, in an effort to pose a political problem for Keir Starmer’s Labour government while winning the attention of billionaire Elon Musk.

British lawmakers voted against an amendment to hold a national inquiry into the U.K. grooming scandal, amid international pressure from Elon Musk and others.

An attempt by the Conservatives to have the government set up a national inquiry into grooming gangs has been voted down by 364 votes to 111 votes, a margin of 253. The amendment was attached to the Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill,

Labour MPs have blocked an attempt to initiate a national inquiry into grooming gangs. The amendment, put forward by Conservative MPs, would have piled pressure on the Government to hold a statutory inquiry into historic child sexual exploitation.

Cumbrian MPs have joined with their colleagues in rejecting a Conservative push for another national inquiry into grooming gangs.

Your reactions across our website and inbox as yesterday Keir Starmer along with frontbenchers abstained on the vote for a national inquiry into the grooming gangs scandal. The Conservatives also hit out at Rachel Reeves over the economy.