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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Jim Waterson Media editor

Braverman’s claim about ethnicity of grooming gangs was false, regulator rules

Suella Braverman
Braverman’s advisers said they singled-out British-Pakistanis in the article because of high-profile grooming gang cases. Photograph: Anadolu Agency/Getty Images

Suella Braverman falsely claimed child grooming gangs in the UK were “almost all British-Pakistani”, according to a ruling by the press regulator, Ipso.

The home secretary made the claim in a Mail on Sunday article published in April, where she singled out British-Pakistani men as being involved in child sexual abuse gangs due to “cultural attitudes completely incompatible with British values” that “have been left mostly unchallenged both within their communities and by wider society”.

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