Bridget Phillipson: “He needs to stop making excuses and come clean with the public.”

A lot of what happened in that period was that there was a total failure to listen to women, to believe women – especially working class girls who were reporting unimaginable abuse but weren't taken seriously.

The way that the Tories and Reform have approached this issue is all too often about political point-scoring. They’re not serious about taking the action that’s needed to protect women.

It should be their hard work and their talent that takes them where they need to be.

Nothing in it exonerates Reform or Nigel Farage from the serious allegations that they still face.