Former Conservative MP Richard Drax has said the perpetrators in the Rotherham child sexual exploitation should be deported back to Pakistan.

Speaking on GB News he said: “I would have hoped that after the past case, this would have really been, there would be a different attitude to all this.

“It seems that people are terrified, and news organisations I include in this to actually say what it is.

“These are in the main Pakistani men, sick paedophiles preying on vulnerable young girls.

“Now, to them, these girls are nothing more than meat. This is completely unacceptable.

“And if they're not British citizens, they should be sent straight home, back to where they came from. If they are, have they been jailed for many years? And so they should be.”