How Britain’s Criminal Justice System Let Down Grooming Gang Victims: MP Suella Braverman

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This is the full version of Jan Jekielek’s interview with Suella Braverman. The interview was originally released on Epoch TV on January 30, 2025.

Suella Braverman is the former home secretary of the United Kingdom, and a conservative member of the British parliament. Jan Jekielek interviewed her while she was in Washington for President Donald Trump’s inauguration.

“Donald Trump has not just shifted the Overton Window, he's shattered it... we need to learn a lot from the Maga movement, from the success of the Republicans under Donald Trump, and really try and apply some of those lessons to UK politics right now, because we are mired in the Depression, the recession, the doom and gloom over socialism”, said Braverman.

They discussed the grooming gangs scandal currently making headlines in Britain, in which predominantly migrant gangs of men have been sexually assaulting and abusing young girls for roughly two decades.

Suella Braverman: What the problem is the grouping gangs, or more accurately, the rape gangs, is that in some of our towns and cities around the United Kingdom, there have been organized gangs, gangs of men who've targeted girls. These gangs have been made up of predominantly Muslim Pakistani men, and they have targeted white girls, poor white girls. And this has been an open secret in these towns. The authorities have been aware. The teachers have been aware. Sometimes the girls themselves have reported the suspects, the perpetrators, to the police, and what's happened is the authorities turned a blind eye.”

About issues related to anti-Semitism and free speech: “We’ve got this problem in the U.K. of hate marches, where extremism, antisemitism, and Islamism can be paraded on our streets, and the police won’t take any action. And it’s caused a real increase in antisemitism, and it’s made parts of our streets and our public realm no-go zones for Jewish people,” she said.

“We have a crisis of free speech in the United Kingdom, and I use that word deliberately. We have a situation where the police have the powers to record your information and log your details, if you’ve said something that might be offensive to someone. It doesn’t matter about the objective nature of what you’ve said. If someone, somewhere, happens to be offended by what you have said, and it relates to a personal characteristic, race, gender, religion, or sex, then that’s it. The case is closed. You will be considered guilty of what we call a ‘non crime hate incident.’”

CHAPTER TITLES
0:00:01 - The Grooming Gangs Scandal
0:00:22 - The Significance of Winston Churchill's Bust
0:00:44 - Crisis of Free Speech in the UK
0:01:26 - Suella Braverman's Background and Political Career
0:08:54 - Addressing the Grooming Gangs Scandal
0:13:12 - Challenges in Addressing the Grooming Gangs Scandal
0:15:23 - The Crisis of Free Speech Continues
0:21:01 - Challenges on Campus
0:21:11 - Plans for the Future

“I think the problem is, there's been a squeamishness in British society to really tackle it [the rape gang scandal] head on. When I was home secretary, I was very keen to tackle it. I went to Rotherham, I went to Rochdale. I met with some of the women now, women, girls previously, who had survived some of this horrendous abuse, and they told me about their experiences, just as I've told you, there have been whistleblowers."

As home secretary, “I set up a task force, I set up a dedicated unit involving the National Crime Agency, which is a very kind of elite set of crime investigators in the United Kingdom and in England, Wales and then and the police to expedite and improve the criminal investigations, to get these investigations to court so justice could be secured, and in its first year, it did secure over 550 arrests, and it identified 4000 victims, but there was much more that could have been done. And you know, if I'm honest, I did struggle to get the support to do more and to do more faster when I talked about it publicly, there was a real shutdown by the kind of mainstream media and people on the left accusing me of racism and accusing me of Islamophobia.”

“I will keep flying the flag for common sense conservatism. I very much believe in the virtue of the patriotic, law abiding, common sense majority. And I think for too long, they've been dismissed and they've been smeared in the United Kingdom. And they need their voice, needs to be heard. And there's a lot of wisdom in that, you know, in the British people, in the hearts and the minds of the British people.”

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