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Kemi Badeknot there, you just overheard as you came into the studio
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has been very critical of your colleague Jess Phillips, the safeguarding minister
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calling her the worst safeguarding minister ever. What's your response to that
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I'm angry. I'm really, really angry, and that's why I am here today
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So as somebody who has been groomed, I didn't think that I should ever be in Parliament
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The reason that I am in Parliament is because of people like Jess Phillips. Jess has not only told me that I am not responsible for my experience
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She said that Parliament would benefit people like me being in it
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And I look at Kia and I think that we've got people that take it really seriously
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The stuff he did around Rochdale, the stuff Jess did in 20 years for women's aid
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The first person that reached out to me in my constituency was somebody who had been raped and waited four years and five months from rape to prosecution
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the Home Secretary came to meet that woman. This is a government that is absolutely committed
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to halving violence against women and girls. And then we've got a leader of the opposition
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that, for point-scoring reasons, dares to send an email out to conservative members
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saying that they have won How has anybody won in this absolutely abhorrent situation that we are in As a teenage girl I was told like many girls up and down the country
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whether in Bradford, whether in Rotherham, this is your fault, this is your doing
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and this is going to impact you for the rest of your life. You have let yourself down, you've let your family down
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and if, like me, you have children, you've let them down too. You know, when Kemi Badenoch was the Minister for Women and Equalities, she never met one grooming victim
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She didn't speak about it in Parliament. Last Parliament, we spoke about football more often than we spoke about rape
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We now, thank God, have a government that is treating violence against women and girls as the national emergency that it is
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we have a government that is implementing recommendations from the J report that is
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getting an expert in Baroness Casey to look into what's happened. And then when she says
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you know, this is really dodgy and we need to be doing something about it. We are absolutely doing something about it. And then you've got a leader of the opposition that comes out and says
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to people like me, we won because she's done some cheap point scoring in the chamber or on the media
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She has no idea. I do not know how she dare
