Prime Minister Starmer is the leader of the Labour Party which has had a tradition of anti-Indian postures on many issues.

The latest in this issue is a statement by no less than the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. When American multi-billionaire Elong Musk criticised his alleged complicity in the “rape of Britain” by “grooming gangs” of ethnic British Pakistanis during his tenure as Director of Public Prosecutions in England and Wales, Prime Minister Keir Starmer used the term “Asian grooming gangs” while defending himself. While such a statement might have pleased the British Pakistanis and Pakistan, the British Indian community took serious offense.
A spokesperson of Friends of India Society International UK rightly commented, “It’s an insult to every Asian…. When it comes to grooming gangs, we are Asians and when they talk about Kashmir, we are suddenly Indians.” The chair of the Hindu Council pointed out that even Hindu and Sikh girls were victims of the perpetrators of crime who were of Pakistani descent and how could the Prime Minister sort to whitewash such atrocities.