Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch has met survivors of grooming gangs in Oldham and Rotherham, describing the meeting as "quite shocking". Speaking to GB News, she said it was "extraordinary" hearing victims describe going "to the authorities multiple times... and in one particular case the police actually handed her, a 12-year-old, into the hands of her abusers".

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Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch has met survivors of grooming gangs in Oldham and Rotherham, describing the meeting as “quite shocking”. Speaking to GB News, she said it was “extraordinary” hearing victims describe going “to the authorities multiple times… and in one particular case the police actually handed her, a 12-year-old, into the hands of her […]

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The Conservative leader repeated calls for a national inquiry into the issue.

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Kemi Badenoch blames ‘peasants’ from ‘sub-communities’ for grooming gangs abuse

The Conservative Party leader, in an explosive interview, also said she doesn't 'care' if people claim she is 'jumping on a far-right bandwagon'.

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The Tory leader has called for a new national inquiry into grooming gangs that looks at two cultural issues - of the perpetrators and the "culture of silence".

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Kemi Badenoch says grooming gang abusers are 'peasants' from 'sub-communities' in other countries

A "lack of openness and honesty" harmed victims of an Oxford-based grooming gang, Thames Valley's police and crime commissioner, Matthew…

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Badenoch, who was first to call for a national inquiry into the rape gangs after Oldham’s request was blocked by Jess Phillips, told GB News in a sit-down interview with Charlie Peters that what “most extraordinary about this case is that clearly these people thought that they could get away with it.[…] Read the rest

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