Kemi Badenoch has blamed “peasants” from “sub-communities” within foreign countries for the grooming gangs crisis.The Conservative also told GB News hearing victims’ accounts were “quite shocking” as she reaffirmed calls for a national inquiry into the scandal.Mrs Badenoch said cultural issues surrounding the problem also needed to be examined.“One is on the perpetrators’ side: where do these abusers come from? There’s a lot of misinformation, there’s a lot of generalisation and many innocent people will end up being grouped in with them,” she said.“But there is a systematic pattern of behaviour, not even just from one country, but from sub-communities within those countries.
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00:00I'm not afraid to look into this. I don't care what people call me, whether they say I'm jumping on a far right bandwagon or I'm just doing it for politics.
00:08This is something that I've been talking about for a while. I said it in my big leadership speech. This was something I wanted to look at.
00:15But if you look at it, there is a systematic pattern of behavior, not even just from one country, but from sub communities within those countries.
00:23People with a particular background, particular class background, work background.
00:28You know, people, very, very poor, sort of peasant background, very, very rural.
00:34This is about those victims who deserve justice, the survivors who deserve justice.