Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch has been confronted by GB News reporter Charlie Peters on Shadow Foreign Secretary Priti Patel's position on the Tory front bench, following Baroness Casey's review on grooming gangs.
In 2020 when Patel was Home Secretary, the Home office published a report which claimed "there was not a disproportionate overrepresentation of British Pakistanis".
Charlie Peters pressed Badenoch on whether the Conservatives and Patel are to blame for the "racial myth" surrounding grooming gangs.
Charlie asked: "You've got someone on your front bench who put out a report saying that actually, Pakistanis weren't overrepresented. Do you think Priti Patel should clarify why she let that report come out?"
Badenoch responded: "I don't know about the report that was put out by Priti Patel. I do know about the work that was done by Sajid Javid, by Suella Braverman, by Theresa May, all Home Secretaries who were Conservative.
"But I'm the person leading my party now and it's either we spend time trying to prosecute reports that have gone on in the past, or actually look at the people who actually covered things up. That's really where the scandal is. That's what the survivors are talking about."
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