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<\/p>\nA Labour MP has defended the Home Office handing \u201canti-rape\u201d guidance to asylum seekers as a \u201cpublic service\u201d that is done elsewhere. <\/p>\n
Speaking to GB News, Graeme Downie questioned why the state would not provide the documents that advise migrants on the age of consent and warnings that rape is illegal.<\/p>\n
The guidance tells recipients that sex without consent is rape and that a person cannot consent while they are asleep, drunk or otherwise unable to respond.<\/p>\n
It also states that these rules apply within marriage and relationships, while warning that child abuse is a serious crime.<\/p>\n
Mr Downie rejected suggestions that the leaflet should never have been issued, arguing that similar public information campaigns are routinely used to tackle crime and social problems.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think if you look around crime figures, you\u2019ll actually see that we should probably tell a large number of men in the UK those facts as well, to be honest,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe need to make sure we\u2019re reducing violence against women and girls and make sure we\u2019re tackling all of these issues head on with a lot of public information.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWe do this kind of public information in every other part of life and facet of life, so I don\u2019t really see why we shouldn\u2019t do it here as well.\u201d<\/p>\n
A Labour MP has defended the Home Office handing \u201canti-rape\u201d guidance to asylum seekers<\/p>\n
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GB NEWS<\/p>\n
Asked whether he believed the Home Office leaflet had been a mistake, Mr Downie said he did not.<\/p>\n
“There are any number of government publications that come out,\u201d he said, adding, “So no, I don\u2019t think it\u2019s a mistake to do these kinds of things at all.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Labour MP also acknowledged that concerns about crimes committed by asylum seekers were legitimate, insisting that those who commit offences should face the consequences.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen people come here and commit crimes, they should be charged for those crimes,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
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\u201cAnd if they\u2019re not entitled to be here, they should be deported.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mr Downie insisted that Labour was already taking action to remove foreign offenders, saying more than 10,000 people had been deported.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are removing the barriers to deporting people out of this country where they commit criminal offences,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis Government has already deported over 10,000 people already. That\u2019s more than any Government in the past has managed to do.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThe action that\u2019s important is on the other end of it, where people commit crimes, that we are taking the right action,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
The Labour MP also defended the Government’s wider approach to illegal migration, rejecting claims that its pledge to \u201cstop the boats\u201d and \u201csmash the gangs\u201d was impossible to achieve.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s not an impossible task, but it is a very complicated task and not a simple one at all,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe must tackle it in the Channel. We must tackle it with people who are here, and we must tackle it to prevent people who are not entitled to be here from coming here in the first place.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Labour MP has defended the Home Office handing \u201canti-rape\u201d guidance to asylum seekers as a \u201cpublic service\u201d…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":109328,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4],"tags":[10208,31,19,18,14,2125,5,20,6,1633],"class_list":["post-109327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-uk","tag-camilla-tominey","tag-labour-party","tag-migrant-crisis","tag-news","tag-politics","tag-presenters","tag-uk","tag-uk-politics","tag-united-kingdom","tag-video-news"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@UnitedKingdom\/117145735237015092","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109327\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}