Listen: Robert Jenrick clashes with BBC’s Nick Robinson over grooming gang row

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Robert Jenrick in heated clash with BBC's Nick Robinson over grooming gangsToday, BBC

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00:00How will an inquiry that takes months or years ensure justice, Mr Generic, will not prosecutions

00:06ensure justice?

00:07I want to do both Nick.

00:08Will not a new law ensure justice?

00:09I want to do both Nick.

00:10Will not better data collection ensure justice?

00:12Nick, I have been arguing for some time that we should have, for example, full life sentences

00:17for the perpetrators.

00:18I've been saying that if they're foreign nationals, they should be deported from our country.

00:22No ifs, no buts, that the cowardly public officials and councillors who covered this

00:27up should be prosecuted.

00:28Did you raise it when you were a Home Office Minister?

00:30I wrote about this last year.

00:32Did you raise it when you were a Home Office Minister?

00:33When I was Home Office Minister with Sweller Brabham, we did take forward.

00:36Did you raise it when you were a Home Office Minister, Mr Generic?

00:40Well I did discuss this with the Home Secretary, but it wasn't my portfolio.

00:43I did discuss it with the Home Secretary.

00:44Did you raise it in the House of Commons?

00:46I wrote about this last year and I was criticised for it.

00:51Yes, I've checked Hansard today and it's not a perfect test.

00:54I went on the media.

00:55When you put in the name Robert Generic grooming, no mention.

00:57Grooming gang, no mention.

00:58Nick, I wrote about this last year.

00:59Rotherham, no mention.

01:00Oldham, no mention.

01:01Rochdale, no mention.

01:02Child sexual abuse, no mention, Mr Generic.

01:03Child rape, no mention.

01:04You have not raised, or have you?

01:05Please correct me if my search is wrong, the issue of mass gang rape and child sex abuse

01:06that you are so energised about, you have no evidence you raised it as a Minister and

01:07no evidence that you've raised it in the House of Commons.

01:08Nick, I wrote about this last year and was criticised by the media for it.

01:09I went on the media.

01:10When you put in the name Robert Generic grooming, no mention.

01:11Rotherham, no mention.

01:12Oldham, no mention.

01:13Child sexual abuse, no mention.

01:14Child rape, no mention.

01:15Child rape, no mention.

01:28doing so.

01:29Suella Braverman was heavily criticised by the media for raising this and by making the

01:33link to the cultural and immigration elements that lie behind it.

01:37Well, let's turn to that because it's an important point.

01:38But this is not about us.

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