Grooming gang monsters born in Britain could be deported as Kemi Badenoch vowed to leave “no stone unturned” in the pursuit of justice.
The Conservative leader said rapists with dual nationality should be stripped of their citizenship and removed from the country.
This includes dual-nationals born in the UK, the Daily Express can reveal.
Mrs Badenoch declared a national inquiry “must leave no stone unturned”, adding that mosques could be ordered to co-operate and give evidence.
She said: “It must investigate councils, the police and even the Government if necessary.
“It must be time-limited, and it must consider the role of ethnicity, religion and other cultural factors.
“Baroness (Louise) Casey’s own report admitted that many of these cases are committed by people of Asian and Pakistani ethnicities.
“Her own report said that those who downplay the ethnicity of perpetrators are continuing to let down society, local communities and the victims. We agree.
“As I said, I have spoken to many survivors. We are speaking on their behalf.
“Their lives and their families’ lives have been turned upside down, so separate to this inquiry, the Government must act now to ensure that they and their families are supported so they can heal.”
Under the Tories’ plan for a national inquiry, the probe must have an explicit focus on the “particular religious, ethnic, or national characteristics” of perpetrators, and whether these contributed to public bodies failing to act on concerns about grooming.
A bombshell 200-page report by Baroness Louise Casey concluded crimes committed by Pakistani or Asian grooming gangs were covered up to avoid inflaming community tensions.
She accused officials of being in “denial” about the scale of the grooming gangs problem.
The report also revealed asylum seekers and foreign nationals have been involved in a “significant proportion” of live police investigations.
An entire chapter of the Casey Review was labelled “Denial” and told how public bodies used “flawed data” to dismiss claims about “Asian grooming gangs as sensationalised, biased or untrue”.
Officials feared being called racist if they spoke out against Asian or Pakistani grooming gangs, it added.
And the Tories declared dual-national grooming gang members should be stripped of their citizenships and deported.
Countries that refuse to take back criminals should face visa penalties, for example by restricting how many people can come to the UK.
Mrs Badenoch said: “We cannot have people exploiting dual nationality to get away with facing justice. They are foreign criminals. Too many people are taking us for a ride. They’re exploiting our system.”
Explaining the policy in more detail, Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp said: “Dual nationals should be stripped of their British citizenship and they should be deported with no exceptions.
“We don’t want these people in our country.
“If they have citizenship in our country, then they should be deported. No ifs, no buts.
“If a country, whether it is Pakistan or anywhere else, refuses to take back their own nationals, either people who were here illegally in the first place, or people convicted of criminal offences, then, as Kemi said, we should use visa sanctions to compel them to take back their own citizens, and suspending overseas aid.
“We as the United Kingdom take back our citizens if our citizens are convicted of offences overseas, it’s only reasonable to expect other countries to do the same thing.”
Mr Philp went further, telling the Daily Express that this must include grooming gang rapists born in the UK.
He said: “Our policy is very clear. When it comes to grooming gangs, we must deliver justice. That includes deporting all offenders who are dual nationals, no matter where they were born.
“These are some of the most serious and sickening offences imaginable. The British public are sick of seeing dangerous offenders walk out of prison and straight back into the very towns they terrorised.
“And unlike Labour, who tie themselves in knots to avoid the issue, the Conservatives will always stand with the victims.”
Qari Abdul Rauf, a ringleader of the Rochdale paedophile ring, repeatedly fought attempts to deport him because he was a dual British-Pakistani citizen.
The father of five, who worked as a taxi driver and Muslim preacher, was among nine Asian men found guilty of sex offences against vulnerable girls in 2012 and received a six-year jail sentence.
Like accomplice Adil Khan, he held British-Pakistani citizenship and they were both stripped of their British nationality after being found guilty of being members of the gang.
A judge ordered both men to be deported to Pakistan nearly a decade ago, but both renounced their Pakistani citizenship days before a court appeal against the Home Office order.
And the Pakistani Government refused to take them back, sparking fury.
Tory leader Mrs Badenoch declared mosques should be compelled to give evidence in a national inquiry.
She said: “Having a statutory national inquiry means wherever the evidence goes, people can be compelled to provide evidence, whether it’s mosques, whether it’s state bodies. That’s what’s critical about it.”
Sir Keir Starmer announced a national inquiry into grooming gangs in June following intense pressure from the Conservatives and Nigel Farage's Reform UK.
But the probe was plunged into chaos in October when a string of survivors quit their roles in protest at how it had been handled.
Fiona Goddard, one of the women who left the liaison panel, backed the Conservatives’ proposals, saying she had “lost faith in the ability of the Government to make meaningful progress”.
She said: “I have more confidence that the terms of reference released today by the Conservatives reflect the real thoughts and feelings of survivors.
“They stay true to the original purpose of the inquiry and align with the approach proposed by Baroness Louise Casey, offering a honest, transparent, and meaningful framework for the investigation.”
Jess Phillips, the safeguarding minister, previously denied that Labour was dragging its feet over the inquiry.
A Home Office spokesman said: “The abuse of children by grooming gangs is one of the most horrific crimes imaginable. We will do everything in our power to ensure these crimes never happen again.
“That’s why we committed to a full, statutory, independent inquiry to uncover the truth. It will be robust, rigorous, and laser-focused on grooming gangs, and its scope will not change.”
