Home Secretary Yvette Cooper will announce a plan for Government-backed local inquiries into grooming gangs today, GB News understands.
With Labour under increasing pressure to launch a national Public Inquiry into the rape gangs scandal, Cooper will be addressing MPs on "child sexual exploitation and abuse" at 2pm on Thursday.
It comes after a bitter weeks-long row over Britain's rape gangs - spearheaded by GB News' reveal that Labour's Jess Phillips repeatedly rejected requests for a Public Inquiry by Oldham Council.
Three of Labour's own MPs had turned on the party to call for Government-backed locally-led probes - which are now set to go ahead.
Yvette Cooper is set to announce the move today
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Labour's line was that the Government should move to implement the recommendations of Professor Alexis Jay's Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA) before launching a separate probe - but after skyrocketing public pressure, this could change today.