Robert Jenrick challenges Andy Burnham to ‘put pressure’ on Pakistan to see freed grooming gang ringleader deported

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Robert Jenrick has challenged Andy Burnham and Labour to "put pressure" on Pakistan to force the deportation of a freed grooming gang ringleader.Speaking to GB News, the Reform Economics Spokesman questioned whether the expected successor to Sir Keir Starmer as Prime Minister "really meant" his call for Shabir Ahmed to be removed from the country.Ahmed, 73, was freed today after serving 14 years for the rape and sexual abuse of young girls, but cannot currently be deported from the UK.

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He was stripped of his British citizenship following his 2012 conviction, leaving him with Pakistani nationality.

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TRENDING Stories Videos Your Say However, Ahmed has avoided removal under the protections in the Immigration Act 1971, which grants certain rights to people who arrived in the UK before 1973 and have lived in the country for at least five years."This man should be deported and should never walk the streets of this country ever again.

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Full stop," Mr Jenrick said.

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