Shadow Justice Secretary Robert Jenrick urges the government to be “honest” about what needs to be done to tackle grooming gangs. He argues “Pakistani men are overrepresented in the perpetrators of grooming gangs” and says he “won’t be blind to that”.
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00:00Look, millions of people have come into our country in recent times and some of them have
00:05come with backwards attitudes towards women, frankly medieval attitudes towards women.
00:11And that is what the reports have said.
00:13They've said that Pakistani men are over-represented in the perpetrators of grooming gangs and
00:21that in many cases they have targeted white working class girls because of their ethnicity
00:28and because they view them as worthless.
00:30We can't be blind to that.
00:32And when there are girls, vulnerable girls, who are being subjected to the most evil forms
00:37of torture and rape, I'm not going to tiptoe around this issue.
00:41I'm not going to disguise my language so that some people are not offended.
00:45That's what got us into this mess in the first place.
00:48We've got to be honest about what is happening here.
00:51That is how we can move forward and try to ensure that we eradicate this problem.