Robert Jenrick under fire after calling for limit on immigration from 'alien, medieval cultures'
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The shadow justice secretary was criticised on Tuesday after suggesting that immigration from what he described as “alien cultures” should be capped in a row over child sexual exploitation. Robert Jenrick said Britain had “seen millions of people enter the UK in recent years and some of them have backward, frankly medieval attitudes to women”.
The Conservative MP for Newark claimed that grooming gangs began “with the onset of mass migration” as he called for a national inquiry into the scandal. He told the BBC: “I think that we have to be very careful about who is coming into this country, the scale and pace of that immigration so that we can have a much more successful integration policy than we have today.”.
He added: “I have always said, and it is a point made by [Tory party leader] Kemi Badenoch that not all cultures are equal. We should be very careful about who is coming into this country and the scale of immigration.”. Mr Jenrick also claimed that Pakistani men are "over-represented in those who are involved in the grooming gangs" and said he will not "tiptoe" around the issue.
The three most notorious child sex gang cases - Rotherham, Rochdale and Telford - all had preparators predominantly of Pakistani and South Asian decent. However, a Home Office study in 2020 found group-based child sexual exploitation offenders “are most commonly white”.
