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Liz Truss pledges to hold police to account over 'repulsive' grooming gangs in 'places like Telford'

Liz Truss has promised to go after those who she claims enabled "repulsive" grooming gangs in places like Telford.

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Liz Truss wants to hold police to account when it comes to grooming gangs.

The Tory leadership hopeful was speaking on GB News in front of a live audience in Leigh, as part of a People's Forum event.

During the Q&A session in the Red Wall town, Ms Truss was asked by a member of the audience what she would do, if she becomes Prime Minister, to "confront and bring to justice the perpetrators of the grooming gangs."

The question-in-full was: "In this current climate, what are you prepared to do to confront and bring to justice the perpetrators of the grooming gangs, because it seems at the moment that we live in a society where the police will happily turn up on your doorstep if you have the audacity to insult someone on Twitter and slap you in handcuffs, but if you're part of a grooming gang they turn the other cheek, and that simply cannot be right.