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UK Home Secretary Suella Braverman faces backlash over 'racist' comments about British-Pakistani men

UK Home Secretary Suella Braverman faced backlash over ‘racist’ comments, after claiming during a live interview with Sky News, that vulnerable white English girls are often abused by British-Pakistani men, while authorities and civil society turn a blind eye “out of political correctness”.

Research conducted by the UK Home Office in 2020 concluded that group-based child sexual exploitation offenders in the UK are "most commonly white".
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