Why Does Emily Maitlis Not Care About the Grooming Gangs?

This clip was taken from last week’s appearance on

Dan Wootton Outspoken

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BBC and LBC's career recycling-bin, The News Agents, are, anachronistically, what Thomas Jefferson had in mind when he wrote, “the man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads them, inasmuch as he who knows nothing is nearer to truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.”

Still, I couldn’t help tuning in when Rupert Lowe, doing the media rounds after the Met Police predictably dropped their investigation into alleged coarse words exchanged with Reform chairman Zia Yusuf, appeared on the podcast.

I had not, however, expected host Emily Maitlis to dismiss the Pakistani rape gang scandal, and accuse Lowe of racism for trying to prevent child abuse.

Maitlis opened by quoting Professor Alexis Jay, saying she is “very unhappy with the politicisation of child sexual exploitation done, in her words, in a very uninformed way.” Maitlis blamed Lowe, but the same charge could be put to the Prime Minister, who accused those concerned about the rape gangs of “jump on a bandwagon of the far-right”.