The victims of sexual abuse are the only voices that matter | Gaby Hinsliff
There comes a point in every genuinely big political scandal when it becomes hard to see the wood for the trees. So here, in no particular order, is a far from exhaustive list of what the sexual harassment scandal now sweeping parliament is not about.
It’s not about the self-righteous conviction that any gropers and grabbers in your own preferred party are a one-off or a regrettable failure of candidate vetting, while all the really awful predators sit on the other side. Everyone involved in politics now needs to face the fact that Bex Bailey – the Labour activist brave enough to come forward last night and say publicly she was raped at a party event aged only 19, and who was subsequently discouraged from reporting it for fear the disclosure might “damage” her – may not be the last such case.
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