British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said Saturday he would accept an investigation into grooming gangs who sexually abused thousands of girls. 

Starmer had previously resisted a national inquiry into the scandal, Sky News reported, which revealed that mostly Pakistani men had groomed, trafficked and raped young white girls over a decade ago. 

His change of mind on the matter comes after a government-requested audit found that a nationwide investigation was needed. 

Starmer told reporters traveling with him to the G7 summit in Canada that he had read the report and would accept the recommendation for a national inquiry. He said it was “the right thing to do” based on what the audit found. 

The 200-page report is expected to be released next week, and according to Sky News, it’s believed to have found that the abuse of white British girls was “institutionally ignored for fear of racism.”