PM has 'confidence' in Jess Phillips after grooming survivors demanded her resignation
Sir Keir Starmer has backed his under-fire safeguarding minister to continue leading the government's efforts to set up a national inquiry into grooming gangs after four survivors demanded her resignation.
The grooming gangs inquiry has been plunged into disarray this week before it has even started, as four survivors have quit the panel and two frontrunners for chairperson have withdrawn.
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