Badenoch: I did everything I could to tackle grooming gangs

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Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch says she did “everything” she could to help women, children and those in ethnic minority backgrounds as the government faces criticism over its efforts to set up an inquiry into grooming gangs.     Report by Ajagbef. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn

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00:00If there's an inquiry in another department that's looking at it, then that's what's happening.

00:05And of course, it wasn't until after the inquiry that we discovered this.

00:09Things were done post that, the Grooming Gangs Task Force, asking why I, as Business Secretary,

00:14remember the Equalities, excuse me, the Equalities Minister was a secondary role.

00:19There was a lot that I was doing on puberty blockers, stopping children from being sterilized at a young age.

00:24There was so much that I did on race as an issue, the Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities.

00:28So please, I'm not going to take any lectures from people who want to pretend that I didn't do enough.

00:33I did every single thing I could within my power to help women, children, and those of an ethnic minority background.

00:39But as I, yes, but this was something, this was something, thank you.

00:43This was something that had an inquiry and the details of the inquiry came out.

00:48We did what we could. I have said it wasn't enough.

00:51Even before I became leader of the opposition, I spoke about it.

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