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Rachel Vickers-Price

Streeting: Grooming gangs rhetoric could lead to UK version of NZ mosque attack

Health Secretary Wes Streeting speaks to the media outside BBC Broadcasting House on January 5, 2025 (Jonathan Brady/PA) - (PA Wire)

Wes Streeting has warned of the dangers of vilification in regards to grooming gangs, pointing to the 2019 mosque massacre in New Zealand as what the result could look like for Britain if “entire communities” are “tarred with the same brush”.

In March 2019 Australian far-right extremist Brenton Tarrant opened fire in two mosques in the city of Christchurch, on New Zealand’s south island.

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