(BBC) Tory peer Baroness Warsi has warned that what she describes as Suella Braverman’s “racist rhetoric” is putting British Asian families at risk.
The peer, the UK’s first South Asian cabinet minister, claimed the home secretary’s comments on small boats and grooming gangs “emboldened racists.”
She told the BBC she feared a backlash against British Asians and had told her dad not to walk home from the mosque.
Ms Braverman’s spokesperson said she would “not shy away from hard truths.”
Ahead of announcing plans for a new police taskforce to tackle grooming gangs, Ms Braverman said groups of “vulnerable white English girls” were being “pursued and raped and drugged and harmed by gangs of British Pakistani men who’ve worked in child abuse networks.”
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