Nigel Farage blames Labour for Rotherham abuse scandal

Rotherham is only a few miles down the road from the Ukip conference, and looms large in the hall. Every speaker so far has managed to mention the scandal of 1,400 children abused and ignored by the authorities. Jane Collins’ speech has riled Labour so much that Labour has accused her of being defamatory, while Nigel Farage devoted a furious section of his speech to accusing the party. He said the child abuse was a ‘direct result’ of Labour’s policies and commitment to political correctness:

‘What we have seen in Rotherham in particular – but there have been other examples of it too – what we have seen within the one-party state as a direct result of their national policies and as a direct result of their own political correctness at a local level is child abuse that has taken place on a scale that I think is actually quite difficult for decent people to comprehend.