London: Suella Braverman, the UK's home secretary, is said to no longer have Steve Baker's support due to her stance on grooming gangs and child sexual abuse.

According to a report in the Guardian, Baker, a well-known member of the UK Conservative Party's right wing and the current minister for Northern Ireland, will not back Braverman in any future leadership campaign.

When the home secretary ran to succeed former Prime Minister Boris Johnson last year, he had previously supported her.

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According to the report, Braverman lost Baker's support after she made remarks in April about British Pakistani men and grooming gangs.

She claimed that a "predominance of certain ethnic groups — and I say British Pakistani males — who hold cultural values totally at odds with British values, who see women in a denigrated and illegitimate way, and pursue an outdated and frankly heinous approach in terms of their behaviour" were responsible for crimes.

According to those close to Baker, it would have been acceptable if she had stated that while most of the crime was committed by white men in their homes, in some communities it was also committed by Pakistani men and covered up for political reasons.

But she's made innocent men look bad. She is not stupid; rather, she lacks judgement.

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The Home Secretary has made it clear that all reprehensible child abusers must face justice, according to a spokesperson for the Home Office. And when it comes to the grooming of young women and girls in British towns who have been abandoned by authorities for decades, she won't be afraid to speak the unpalatable truth.

"Although the home secretary has stated that the vast majority of British Pakistanis are law-abiding, upstanding citizens, it was clear from independent reports that thousands of young girls were being abused in towns like Rochdale, Rotherham, and Telford due to cultural sensitivities, right in front of councils and the police.

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"To ensure that this horrific scandal can never happen again, and bring members of grooming gangs to justice for the victims," the statement continued, "we have announced a raft of measures, including a new police task force and mandatory reporting."