(Sky News) Suella Braverman has defended her use of language after claiming grooming gang members are “almost all British-Pakistani,” describing them as “unfashionable facts” in the face of a backlash.
In a column for the Spectator, the home secretary said it was not racist to speak “plain truths” — though she stressed most British-Pakistani men are not perpetrators of sexual abuse.
“There is something peculiar about this political moment, where those of us advancing unfashionable facts are beaten over the head with fashionable fictions,” Ms Braverman wrote.
“I suppose the ethnicity of grooming gang perpetrators in a string of cases is the sort of fact that has simply become unfashionable in some quarters — like the fact that 100% of women do not have a penis.”
