Politics · 10 July 2026
Andy Burnham has challenge deporting Rochdale gang leader after citizenship revoked
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Andy Burnham, a potential future Prime Minister, promised to deport Shabir Ahmed, the released leader of the Rochdale grooming gang, stating he would "stop at nothing." Ahmed, a former dual British-Pakistani national, has been stripped of his British citizenship and renounced his Pakistani one, making him stateless. Pakistan reportedly refuses to accept him unless Britain extradites Pakistani dissidents, a demand the UK finds unacceptable.
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