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Evening Standard
Politics
Christopher McKeon

Badenoch ‘wrong’ to claim Islamophobia definition bars talking about ‘groomers’

Kemi Badenoch clashed with Sir Keir Starmer over calls for a national inquiry into grooming gangs (House of Commons/UK Parliament/PA) - (PA Wire)

A cross-party group of parliamentarians has hit back at Kemi Badenoch after she claimed it had said “talking about sex groomers was an example of Islamophobia”.

The All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on British Muslims said Mrs Badenoch had “wrongly claimed” its report on defining Islamophobia gave such an example.

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