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How to be a new MP, with Natalie Fleet MP
Season 1, Ep. 5
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Gloria De Piero and Jonathan Ashworth talk to Natalie Fleet, Labour MP for Bolsover, as she approaches a year in Parliament.
She talks about her campaign to stop the perpetrators of rape having access to those children conceived of the rape, why the Government has to reform welfare and having to wait to be given formal permission to remove her jacket in parliament in a heatwave.
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