Labour's failure to tackle the small-boats crisis risks fuelling further grooming gang cases, the Conservatives warned yesterday.
Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp said there are growing concerns that foreign criminals are using the border chaos to slip into Britain illegally.
He said the grooming gangs scandal was becoming a 'border security issue' – and pointed to a warning in Louise Casey's official report this week, which found that a 'significant proportion' of suspects in currently live cases are asylum seekers or foreign nationals.
Speaking at a press conference in London, Mr Philp said: 'The Government has no idea who the people are coming in, what their previous records are... The fact that Louise Casey in her report identifies that 'significant numbers' of perpetrators are asylum seekers or non-UK nationals, shows that the lack of control at the border is fuelling the risk here.'
Baroness Casey's 'audit' was commissioned by the Government to establish whether a national inquiry is needed into the grooming gangs scandal.
