Robert Jenrick in heated clash with BBC's Nick Robinson over grooming gangsToday, BBC
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00:00How will an inquiry that takes months or years ensure justice, Mr Generic, will not prosecutions
00:06ensure justice?
00:07I want to do both Nick.
00:08Will not a new law ensure justice?
00:09I want to do both Nick.
00:10Will not better data collection ensure justice?
00:12Nick, I have been arguing for some time that we should have, for example, full life sentences
00:17for the perpetrators.
00:18I've been saying that if they're foreign nationals, they should be deported from our country.
00:22No ifs, no buts, that the cowardly public officials and councillors who covered this
00:27up should be prosecuted.
00:28Did you raise it when you were a Home Office Minister?
00:30I wrote about this last year.
00:32Did you raise it when you were a Home Office Minister?
00:33When I was Home Office Minister with Sweller Brabham, we did take forward.
00:36Did you raise it when you were a Home Office Minister, Mr Generic?
00:40Well I did discuss this with the Home Secretary, but it wasn't my portfolio.
00:43I did discuss it with the Home Secretary.
00:44Did you raise it in the House of Commons?
00:46I wrote about this last year and I was criticised for it.
00:51Yes, I've checked Hansard today and it's not a perfect test.
00:54I went on the media.
00:55When you put in the name Robert Generic grooming, no mention.
00:57Grooming gang, no mention.
00:58Nick, I wrote about this last year.
00:59Rotherham, no mention.
01:00Oldham, no mention.
01:01Rochdale, no mention.
01:02Child sexual abuse, no mention, Mr Generic.
01:03Child rape, no mention.
01:04You have not raised, or have you?
01:05Please correct me if my search is wrong, the issue of mass gang rape and child sex abuse
01:06that you are so energised about, you have no evidence you raised it as a Minister and
01:07no evidence that you've raised it in the House of Commons.
01:08Nick, I wrote about this last year and was criticised by the media for it.
01:09I went on the media.
01:10When you put in the name Robert Generic grooming, no mention.
01:11Rotherham, no mention.
01:12Oldham, no mention.
01:13Child sexual abuse, no mention.
01:14Child rape, no mention.
01:15Child rape, no mention.
01:28doing so.
01:29Suella Braverman was heavily criticised by the media for raising this and by making the
01:33link to the cultural and immigration elements that lie behind it.
01:37Well, let's turn to that because it's an important point.
01:38But this is not about us.