Hadley Freeman, Baroness Warsi, Derry Girls' actors Siobhan McSweeney and Louisa Harland on the London stage, AI, Emma Booth
Woman's Hour
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The Home Secretary's Statement on Child Sexual Exploitation
The home secretary has been clear that all despicable child abusers must be brought to justice and she will not shy away from telling hard truths. She's also said the vast majority of British Pakistanis are law-abiding upstanding citizens. But independent reports were unequivocal that towns like Roger Delle, Roderman Talford have meant thousands of young girls were abused under the noses of councils and police. This statement I think does backpedal from where she was a week ago. Nobody is culturally sensitive about talking about this specific form of subset of child sexual exploitation in very specific towns which were high profile in which there were very specific perpetrators.
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