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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Politics
Rachael Burford

Ethnicity, culture and religion to be examined by long-awaited grooming gangs inquiry, Home Secretary vows

The long-awaited inquiry into the grooming gangs scandal will “explicitly examine” whether the ethnicity, culture or religion of perpetrators directly influenced offending, the Home Secretary vowed today.

Shabana Mahmood said the statutory independent investigation will be “laser focused” on grooming gangs as she insisted there “will be no hiding place for the predatory monsters who committed these vile crimes”.

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