Kemi Badenoch blames ‘peasants’ from ‘sub-communities’ for grooming gangs abuse

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.