Starmer under ‘immense’ pressure over grooming gangs inquiry, says Farage

Nigel Farage said a new inquiry needed to be a ‘rifle shot’ focused on abuse committed by men ‘predominantly of Pakistani origin’ (Jonathan Brady/PA)

The British 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”.