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September 4, 2017updated 18 Sep 2017 6:44pm

Sarah Champion MP: ‘Very damaging for Labour if there are certain national newspapers we are not allowed to speak to’

By Dominic Ponsford

Former Labour equality spokesperson Sarah Champion MP has warned that it is “very damaging for Labour” if The Sun is off-limits for the party.

Champion was effectively sacked from Jeremy Corbyn’s frontbench shadow cabinet team after writing a comment piece for The Sun in which she warned that “mainly white pubescent girls were being sexually groomed and exploited by gangs of mainly British Pakistani men”.

In her resignation statement last month she said: “I apologise for the offence caused by the extremely poor choice of words in The Sun article on Friday.”

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