Charlie Peters outlines EXACTLY what is needed from our politicians who are too concerned about 'being offended' on grooming gangs - analysis

She stressed that she had been concerned at how people were generalising on this issue and that lots of innocent people were being tarnished by the association with grooming gang perpetrators.

But I still didn't expect her to say that.

Now, I think we can infer that when she said "peasants from subcommunities", she was referring to Mirpur and Kashmir in Pakistan, where many of the perpetrators have heritage and ethnic links.

However, for her to use that language rather than referring to South Asian or Pakistani offenders did shock many of our viewers.

Viewers commenting on GB News' Your Say did express surprise at the language Badenoch used. And I have to say, it did make me raise both eyebrows as I was sitting opposite her in Westminster - but we've also seen people reacting politically in a stronger way.

Carla Denyer, the co-leader of the Green Party, said that it was "an example of politicians using the language of the far-right".

The Lib Dems Home Affairs spokesperson said: "It wasn't language that they would use."

We also heard from the Prime Minister's spokesman saying that it's also language that they don't think the Prime Minister would use.

This all points towards political attacks towards Badenoch for using those terms, rather than a discussion of the issues raised in the interview.

Unfortunately, this means that instead of focusing on survivors and this crisis, we are instead discussing people being offended over this issue.

For the last two weeks, far too much on the coverage has been about political tittle tattle rather than people focusing on what really matters. Survivors, campaigners and their families.

If we are going to get the justice that so many survivors around the country need on this grooming gang scandal, we'll need politicians to come together.

One of the last things that the leader of the opposition said in her interview this week with GB News was that she wanted people of all parties to not worry about being called far right.

To not worry about Sir Keir Starmer's three-line whip.

She wanted them to worry instead about the quest for justice that so many survivors and their families have been fighting for so many years.

That was an olive branch from a very pugnacious politician, a politician who is criticised regularly for being fierce and using extreme language.

But here we have her trying to reach out and work with other politicians from other parties to try and get justice done and to try to finally get to grips with this appalling national atrocity.

If there is going to be an inquiry, as now has been demanded by Sarah Champion, the influential MP for Rotherham, then we'll need more of that sort of language coming from more than just the Conservatives.