Watch live: MPs debate child safety bill after Starmer faces Badenoch at PMQs

Watch live as MPs discuss the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill at its second reading on Wednesday, 8 January, after Sir Keir Starmer faced Kemi Badenoch at Prime Minister’s Questions.

Wednesday’s PMQs came as a furious row erupted between the two political parties over grooming gangs.

A clash has erupted over the Conservatives’ bid to use Labour’s children’s safety bill to force a vote for a national grooming gangs inquiry, pushed for by billionaire Elon Musk.

After facing Sir Keir Starmer at PMQs, Tory leader Kemi Badenoch will seek an amendment to the Labour’s Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill, which is expected to call for ministers to establish a “national statutory inquiry into historical child sexual exploitation, focused on grooming gangs”.

Claiming the Bill is “single biggest piece of child protection legislation in a generation”, education secretary Bridget Phillipson warned that, if successful, the Tories’ vote would “block it and kill it stone dead”, calling the move “absolutely sickening” and urging Conservatives to “put up or shut up”.