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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Jessica Elgot Deputy political editor

Grooming gangs made up of ‘peasants’ from ‘sub-communities’, says Badenoch

Kemi Badenoch
Badenoch, who last week said she had not met any victims of the grooming gangs, told GB News she had now spoken to some. Photograph: Andy Rain/EPA

Kemi Badenoch has said “peasants” from “sub-communities” in some countries are the ones in grooming and rape gangs, and that a national inquiry would seek to identify those in authority who did not act.

“There are some places where, when people behave in that way, a mob turns up and burns their homes down, and then they know that they can’t do that sort of thing,” the Conservative leader told GB News.

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