The home secretary claimed it was not racist to speak 'plain truths' after she was accused of amplifying far-right narratives with claims most grooming gang members are British-Pakistani.
Suella Braverman has defended her use of language after claiming grooming gang members are"almost all British-Pakistani", describing them as"unfashionable facts" in the face of a backlash.
In a column for The Spectator, the home secretary said it was not racist to speak"plain truths" - though she stressed most British-Pakistani men are not perpetrators of sexual abuse. "There is something peculiar about this political moment, where those of us advancing unfashionable facts are beaten over the head with fashionable fictions," Ms Braverman wrote."I suppose the ethnicity of grooming gang perpetrators in a string of cases is the sort of fact that has simply become unfashionable in some quarters - like the fact that 100% of women do not have a penis.
Earlier this month Ms Braverman made several comments about the ethnicity of abusers in high-profile gangs. In comments that generated heavy criticism, she told Sky News' Sophy Ridge on Sunday programme:"What's clear is that what we've seen is a practice whereby vulnerable white English girls, sometimes in care, sometimes who are in challenging circumstances, being pursued and raped and drugged and harmed by gangs of British Pakistani men who've worked in child abuse rings or networks.
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