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We're going to talk about child grooming today. It's a really uncomfortable subject.

And the conviction rates for it in this country are shockingly low.

But we're talking about it specifically because our Prime Minister has pledged that political

correctness about ethnicity won't get in the way of a crackdown on grooming gangs.

And he spelled out what he means, which is specifically grooming gangs of

British Pakistani origin, which he, his government believes, is at the heart of most of this crime.

So how does this make you feel? Obviously, anyone in their right minds wants the people behind

grooming gangs to be put on trial and if found guilty to go to prison for a very long time.

But when you inject the words political correctness into it, is that a bit of a dog whistle?

Are you politicising something that should be purely a matter of criminal justice

and what is the best way to get people behind bars who have done wrong?

So, is it better to call it out if that's what the data is telling us,

and we'll come back to that data in a moment?

Or is Tory policy now being made by Tommy Robinson and the English

Defence League, who've been on about this since the Rotherham scandal over 10 years ago? Welcome to

The Newsagents. The Newsagents. It's John. It's Emily.

And we are at Newsagents HQ.

Rochdale, Rotherham, Telford.

They all have something in common for all the wrong reasons,

which is the terrible stories of grooming gangs,

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