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After Sunday’s correction in Mail on Sunday I want to thank, with every bit of my heart, all my colleagues, friends & family who stood by me & with me over the past 14 months, in what has been an awful experience that no one should have to go through but sadly many do. 1.
2. Every day for the past 14 months I have sought to clear my name. There were days I couldn’t face it, days I had to force myself to keep going. My nights haunted as I sought over & over to make sense of how & why. The support of the real fellowship of labour kept me going.
3. In a detailed, painstaking investigation I have learnt things things I did not want to know. Opened doors to information I would rather have slammed shut. I cannot now ignore those discoveries. Truth, justice & fairness cannot be subjugated by political expedience.
It is deeply disappointing that @UKLabour (my party) has allowed this racist & utterly regressive #Tory government to present itself as the protector of women's rights & children's safety. The current #Labour stance is wrong in so many ways it is hard to know where to begin. /1
Firstly we must be clear that for the Tories this is a risk-free & cynical act of political expediency that fits with their petty nationalist narrative that presents the left as an aloof "metropolitan elite". The same Tories have impoverished & marginalised women over the... /2
...past decade of austerity and they have failed to act upon the growing tide of male violence & sexual exploitation faced by women & girls. Anyone drawing the conclusion that a vote for the Tories is a vote for women is sadly mistaken. /3
