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Shadow defence secretary James Cartlidge defended his party leader Kemi Badenoch after she was criticised for her decision to describe Labour as a “paedo defenders party” during Prime Minister’s Questions.The opposition leader’s jibe followed reporting by The Times that female Labour MPs had told Sir Keir earlier this month that voters had “screamed” the phrase at them in the street over the Peter Mandelson scandal.

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00:00So perhaps before he gets on his high horse, he should ask why his backbenchers are saying that they're being
00:05called the Pedo Defenders Party.
00:07Yes, yes. So why don't we get back?
00:10Do you think she should apologise for saying that?
00:13Of course, she didn't say that. She's quoting what was quoted in The Times by a Labour MP.
00:18A female Labour MP was quoted anonymously in The Times as using that phrase at a meeting of the Parliamentary
00:24Labour Party in relation to what the Prime Minister is doing.
00:28It's not our fault that he's got the problems with Peter Mandelson and Epstein, who was a convicted pedophile, convicted
00:35of child prostitution.
00:37The issues with Matthew Doyle, the failure of the Prime Minister to deal with the grooming gang's inquiry until he
00:42was pushed and pushed and pushed and didn't want to do it.
00:45Yet another U-turn. So she didn't say that and she didn't fail to act on these things.
00:49That's on the Prime Minister and that's why that phrase was used.
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