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Mon 8th Jan 2018

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Debate between Lord Johnson of Marylebone and Yvette Cooper
Monday 8th January 2018

(6 years, 3 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Yvette Cooper Portrait Yvette Cooper (Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford) (Lab)
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The problem is that this man thought it was okay to publicly leer at women’s bodies while they were in the workplace, including tweeting repeatedly about women, about their knockers, their breasts, their boobs, their baps—on and on. What does it say to women and young girls across the country that a Minister is defending that—including when this man attacked a woman MP in this House in that way? Instead, why does not the Minister stand with women across the world who are saying to men like this that their time is up?

Lord Johnson of Marylebone Portrait Joseph Johnson
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The Government have condemned the tweets. Mr Young has apologised for them. Any repetition of language of that kind will not be tolerated.