A report by Baroness Louise Casey will, it is understood, recommend that a new national inquiry should look at the race of the perpetrators of the scandal.

Rachel Reeves insisted “people’s hurt feelings” are not the most important thing as she faced fury over Labour’s handling of the grooming gangs scandal.

The Chancellor refused to apologise for ministers’ comments during a national row, when people calling for a national inquiry into the rape and sexual abuse of teenage girls were dismissed as right-wing.

It comes after Sir Keir Starmer revealed he will u-turn on the scandal, and order a national inquiry.

A report by Baroness Louise Casey will, it is understood, recommend that a new national inquiry should look at the race of the perpetrators of the scandal, amid widespread fears it was mainly carried out by groups of Pakistani men.