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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Geraldine McKelvie Senior correspondent

Female survivors of grooming gangs demand apology from Nigel Farage

The Reform UK leader, Nigel Farage
Nigel Farage said on Monday: ‘I’m not demeaning or diminishing in any way the treatment that [they] have been through. I’m just pointing out they were victims, survivors now, of a very different kind of sexual abuse.’ Photograph: Leon Neal/Getty Images

Five women have asked for an apology from Nigel Farage after he suggested they were not victims of grooming gangs.

They described the comments by the Reform leader as “degrading and humiliating”, and accused him of “ignorance” of the issues.

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