Tory peer accuses Suella Braverman of ‘racist rhetoric’ over grooming gangs

Lady Warsi criticises home secretary after comments singling out British-Pakistani men in child abuse cases

A senior Conservative peer has accused Suella Braverman of using “racist rhetoric” after the home secretary singled out British-Pakistani men as being of special concern in relation to child sexual abuse cases.

Lady Warsi, the first Asian person to chair the Tory party, said Conservatives cannot “use the pigment in their skin as a defence mechanism to say they are not racist”, adding “brown people can be racist too”.