UK PM Front Runner Promises Crackdown on Grooming Gangs and End to ‘Policing Bad Jokes’ on Twitter

UK PM Front Runner Promises Crackdown on Grooming Gangs and End to ‘Policing Bad Jokes’ on Twitter
Conservative party leadership contender Rishi Sunak at Here East studios in Stratford, east London, on July 15, 2022. Victoria Jones/PA Media
Owen Evans
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The Tory leadership contender and former chancellor Rishi Sunak promised to create a new criminal offence for grooming pedophile rings across northern English towns and cities.

“I will also legislate to ensure that the atrocious crimes in Rochdale that we were all so appalled by will never be repeated. Our police forces must be fully focused on fighting actual crime in people’s neighbourhoods and not policing bad jokes on Twitter,” said Sunak in The Telegraph’s report on his latest campaign policy intervention.
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