"Do you understand that victims of child sexual abuse, survivors of child sexual abuse will hear you use the word 'spaffed' - which means 'ejaculated', prime minister,"
"Authorities have been accused of “decriminalising” sex attacks after official statistics showed that the proportion of reported rapes prosecuted in England and Wales has fallen to 1.4 per cent."
"We fear that the effective decriminalisation of rape is being ignored, and that in actual fact this figure will continue to drop,” End Violence Against Women Coalition campaigns manager Rebecca Hitchen told The Independent.
Guardian - July 2020
Victims’ commissioner Dame Vera Baird QC
Endorsing criticisms raised by campaigners against sexual violence “In effect, what we are witnessing is the decriminalisation of rape. "
"year to the end of March 2020, 58,856 cases of rape were recorded by police forces in England and Wales. These led to just 2,102 prosecutions, compared with 3,043 in the previous 12 months."
"Prosecutions had fallen to 2,102 from 3,034 in 2018-2019, while the number of charges had risen slightly, by 109 to 1,867. The number of rape cases referred by police fell almost 20 percent from 3,375 to 2,747"
"Your hospitality tonight precludes me from giving you one of those high-minded lectures on the importance of your behaving responsibly, which some politicians in the past have made the mistake of delivering to your profession."
"In any case, I am bound to say that I am reasonably satisfied with the traditional arrangement under which we politicians leave you journalists to get on with your job while you journalists tell us how to do ours."