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A call for an independent public inquiry into the links between prominent British figures and the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein has been backed by 21 Labour MPs.

The call has been made in an early day motion, tabled in Parliament, by the Labour MP Nadia Whittome.

Whittome said the Epstein files make it clear that the disgraced financier “kept a close relationship with a number of British public figures”.

“His victims, and the public more widely, need to know the truth about the extent to which these public figures and British institutions may have been complicit in his crimes,” Whittome said.

Early day motions (EDMs) are parliamentary tools used by MPs to call for a debate about a particular topic.

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