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Rotherham MP Sarah Champion
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This week, the Times reported that Labour’s hard left and Rotherham charities were seeking to unseat the town’s MP Sarah Champion.
She, of course, resigned from Labour’s front bench last year, after writing in the Sun newspaper that the country has a problem with “British Pakistani men raping and exploiting white girls.”
Aside from these comments, I tweeted, Champion was first selected as a candidate in acrimonious circumstances, which I covered as a reporter for the Left Futures website back in 2012.
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