Nearly all women who attempt to reach the UK in small boats from northern France are raped on their journey, according to the Home Secretary.
In an interview with The Rest Is Politics podcast, Shabana Mahmood said sexual abusers would exploit most asylum seekers as long as traffickers continued to decide who came to Britain.
She said: ‘We’re not in control of this border. The sifting of the people that end up in the north of France and are about to get on a dinghy is done by criminal gangs who are also, by the way, people traffickers.
‘You can almost guarantee that every woman
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