Muslim groups urge Suella Braverman to withdraw ‘irresponsible and divisive’ grooming gang comments A Home Office-commissioned study in 2020 found that group-based child sexual exploitation offenders are most commonly white.

(Sky News) Suella Braverman has been urged to withdraw “divisive” comments around child sexual exploitation (CSE) by dozens of medical bodies, businesses and Muslim community organisations, Sky News can reveal.

A number of Muslim organisations across the country have written to Rishi Sunak to express “deep concern” at what they branded “irresponsible and divisive rhetoric” from the home secretary.

Among the criticism of the home secretary is that her comments around grooming gangs, which were aired in a series of interviews last week, amounted to “inflammatory and divisive rhetoric that is sensationalist and contradicts her own department’s evidence.”

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