A grooming gang victim has pledged to fight for a new national inquiry into the scandal.
Elizabeth Harper, who was abused in Rotherham, South Yorkshire, told a Reform UK conference in Chester that Britain “needs to see how far this actually goes”.
The Government has so far resisted calls for a national investigation into the rape and abuse of girls by predominantly British-Pakistani gangs.
Ms Harper, who was abused as a teenager for four years in the 2000s and has written a book about her ordeal, said she had been failed by South Yorkshire Police, Rotherham Borough Council and social services.
“I’m glad that this has come to light again,” she told the conference. “Finally the world is watching the extent of what we had to go through.
“I am on a fight for a national inquiry to be held. This country needs to see how far this actually goes, and hold people responsible.
“Yes, there’s been singular inquiries just in six towns out of over 50 towns and cities across this country.
“We need the dots joining together to see this for what it is. It’s organised crime.”
Ms Harper told Reform members in the audience that the inquiry was necessary to authoritatively show the motives and ethnicity of abusers and prevent such a scandal from happening again.
“We need proper data on the motives and the drivers of the perpetrators involved,” she said.
“We need the data on the ethnicity of these perpetrators, and we need action and change. This is a must, not only for people just like me, but for those children that may be suffering now and the future.”
The mother-of-one received a standing ovation and embraced Nigel Farage, the Reform leader, as she left the stage.
Mr Farage said: “It is beggars belief that the Prime Minister has denied brave victims like Elizabeth Harper the inquiry this country needs to stop this kind of race-based sexual abuse of our young children.”
Asghar Bostan, who raped Ms Harper when he was 47 and she was 15, was jailed for nine years in 2018.
In August 2014, an independent report concluded that an estimated 1,400 children had been sexually abused in Rotherham between 1997 and 2013, by predominantly British-Pakistani men.
A poll found on Friday that most Britons want the Government to launch a new inquiry into the grooming gang.
More than three-quarters back demands for a national investigation, according to the YouGov survey, piling pressure on Sir Keir Starmer to drop his opposition to the move.
Only 13 per cent of adults agree with the Government that no further inquiry is needed, including just one in five Labour voters.
The poll came after Labour MPs were ordered to vote down a Tory move in the Commons to try to force a national inquiry.
The amendment to the Children’s Wellbeing Bill put forward by Tory MPs would have piled pressure on the Government to hold a statutory inquiry into historic child sexual exploitation. It was voted down by 364 to 111 – a majority of 253 – on Wednesday evening.
On Thursday, Andy Burnham, the Labour Mayor of Greater Manchester, defied Sir Keir to appeal for a new investigation.
The Government has argued that it should focus on implementing the recommendations of Professor Alexis Jay’s independent inquiry into child sexual abuse rather than launching another review.
However, the Jay inquiry did not focus specifically on grooming and did not assess every town and city where grooming gangs operated.