Rishi Sunak’s focus on Asian grooming gangs may be the most irresponsible culture war yet | PaulWaugh
She told the BBC’s Laura Kuenssberg: “I didn’t want to get political – but some of these councillors, senior politicians in Labour-run areas, over a period of years, absolutely failed to take action because of cultural sensitivities.”to claim that one of the “critical facts” about the grooming scandal was that “the perpetrators are groups of men, almost all British-Pakistani, who hold cultural attitudes completely incompatible with British values”.
Sabah Kaiser, the ethnic minority ambassador for the independent inquiry into child sexual abuse, also told BBC Radio 4 it was “very, very dangerous for the Government to turn child sexual abuse into a matter of colour”. Yet Keir Starmer refused to bite. As Director of Public Prosecutions, he is on strong ground because he actually gave the green light for the prosecution of the Rochdale gang. The man who led that case, Nazir Afzal, has also said Pakistani communitiesBut Afzal repeatedly stresses that just because ethnicity wasfactor.
What dismays some moderate Conservative backbenchers is that their party is once again giving oxygen to far-right online memes, just as Boris Johnson did when he falsely accused Starmer of
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