Grooming gangs made up of ‘peasants’ from ‘sub-communities’, says Badenoch

Tory leader says new inquiry should look at background of perpetrators as well as why some in authority did not act

Kemi Badenoch has said peasants" from sub-communities" from some countries are the ones in grooming and rape gangs, saying a national inquiry would seek to identify those in authority who did not act.

There are some places where, when people behave in that way, a mob turns up and burns their homes down, and then they know that they can't do that sort of thing," the Conservative leader told GB News.