The Foreign Office (FO) on Wednesday strongly objected to British Home Secretary Suella Braverman’s “discriminatory and xenophobic” remarks on Pakistani men, saying that they painted a “highly misleading picture”.
A day earlier, during a Sky News interview about plans to tackle child sexual abuse, Braverman spoke about “the predominance of British-Pakistani males who hold cultural values totally at odds with British values”.
“[British-Pakistani men] see women in a demeaned, illegitimate way, and pursue an outdated and frankly heinous approach to the way we behave,” Braverman remarked after she was informed that a Home Office report in 2020 found that most child sexual abuse gangs are comprised of white men under the age of 30, and the available evidence did not indicate that members of grooming gangs were disproportionately more likely to be Asian or black.
