A report claims 250,000 white working-class girls were victims of crimes by immigrants while the United Kingdom was an EU member.

Omissions

• The 250,000 figure is an extrapolation, not a count of documented victims. The methodology has been criticised for assuming that every area of the UK experienced the same rate of grooming-gang activity as the worst-affected localities.
• The report is an independent inquiry commissioned by MP Rupert Lowe (Restore Britain), not an official UK government report or a judicially established finding.
• The characterisation of perpetrators as 'immigrants' is misleading: in the established grooming-gang scandals (Rotherham, Rochdale, Telford, etc.), the convicted perpetrators were overwhelmingly British-born men of Pakistani heritage, not immigrants.
• Fact-checking organisations, including Full Fact, have assessed the 250,000 figure as not a reliable estimate.
• The official Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA) and the earlier Jay Report (2014) documented approximately 1,400 victims in Rotherham alone — a serious but far smaller verified number — and did not produce any national estimate approaching 250,000.

Sources

• PrimaryUK Parliament — Early Day MotionsEDM 66091 noting the publication of the 'Independent Rape Gang Inquiry Report'. Signed on 16 June 2026 by Rupert Lowe (Great Yarmouth). Describes it as an independent report, not a government inquiry.
• SecondaryFull FactTitle: '250,000 victims of rape gangs is not a reliable estimate'. Article states: 'A report from the Restore Britain leader Rupert Lowe claimed that it is established that 250,000 white girls have been the victims of rape gangs' and assesses this figure as unreliable.
• SecondaryYahoo News — Fact CheckAssesses the claim that the number of girls raped in the UK by grooming gangs is definitively documented to be 250,000 and concludes: 'No, that's not true: That figure is not a factual count of known victims but rather a rough estimate based on projections.'