“I hear a lot of people talk about Asian grooming gangs, about Pakistani grooming gangs, a lot of people are being blamed, a lot of innocent people who happen to share characteristics are being blamed, so let’s be specific.”.
Badenoch doubles down on blaming ‘peasants’ for grooming gangs abuse Kemi Badenoch has defended her comments blaming “peasants” from “sub-communities” in foreign countries for the grooming gangs crisis.
“They did come from a particular place where they were mostly peasant farmers, they were insular, even from the rest of Pakistan, they’re not like the people in Lahore.
The Conservative leader faced criticism for her words last week, with Downing Street saying it was not language Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer would use.
She also told the programme that “evil habits” have propagated from people who have come to the UK from a “particular region and sub-community in Pakistan”.
