Cabinet Minister Fighting To Keep Her Job After Grooming Gang Comments

Lucy Powell has been House of Commons leader since the election.

A cabinet minister is fighting to keep her job after she was forced to apologise over comments she made about child grooming gangs.

Commons leader Lucy Powell appeared to downplay the controbersy during a heated exchange with Reform UK campaigner Tim Montgomerie on Radio Four’s Any Questions programme.

Thousands of vulnerable girls were abducted and raped by gangs of men from mainly British-Pakistani backgrounds.