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Fury as Farage uses rape cases to bash Labour
‘Opportunist’ conference speech from Ukip leader blames scandal on ‘political correctness’

UKIP leader Nigel Farage shamelessly exploited Rotherham’s child rape scandal yesterday to launch an opportunist attack on Labour.

Mr Farage used his party conference speech to claim that Labour’s “political correctness” had caused more than 1,400 children to be abused.

He said MPs and councillors refused to act because they were “scared of causing a division within the very multicultural society that they had created.”

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