Janet Daby MP asks Penny Mordaunt about the attack outside Thomas Knyvett Collage

Dozens of MPs are calling for the government to investigate a “horrific” group attack on a Black schoolgirl in Surrey.

The teenager, and another 15-year-old girl, were set upon by a number of people outside Thomas Knyvett College in Ashford on Monday afternoon, in what police are treating as a “serious racially aggravated assault”.

Footage of the incident shows the Black girl being dragged around by her braids and repeatedly kicked in the head, while at one point she is beaten by three people at once.