Robert Jenrick questions if Andy Burnham ‘has the balls’ to deport freed grooming gang ringleader

Robert Jenrick has questioned whether Andy Burnham “has the balls” to deport a vile grooming gang ringleader after he was freed from prison last week.

Speaking to Camilla Tominey on GB News, the Reform UK Treasury Spokesman insisted his party would do “whatever it takes” to see Shabir Ahmed removed to Pakistan.

Despite being stripped of his British citizenship, Ahmed cannot be deported due to protections under the Immigration Act 1971, which many have called on the Government to amend or circumvent.

“What we've said is I want Andy Burnham as our new Prime Minister, day one, to pick up the phone to the president or prime minister of Pakistan,” Mr Jenrick began.

The Reform MP insisted Mr Burnham must say to Islamabad: “'You are not getting another penny of foreign aid' - remember we give £80 million a year in foreign aid - 'and we're going to pause visas for Pakistanis until such time as that man has touched down on an airfield in Pakistan.’”

“That will be the test of Andy Burnham. Does he have the balls to do that? And I can assure you, Nigel Farage, Zia Yusuf - they certainly do.”

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