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Mythbusting. At 4.30pm today there is a Westminster Hall Debate on an e-petition on the publication of child sexual offender data. The petition calls for all relevant agencies to publish the data on nationality, ethnicity, religion and immigration status of people convicted of child sexual offences. I have been asked to attend this so called Rape Gang Debate today by a constituent. Fact check it is not specifically a Rape Gang Debate as this debate is about all sexual offences committed on children. This debate does not belong to any MP it is a petition debate and will be opened by Jamie Stone MP from the Liberal Democrats. Every MP is automatically invited to these debates. I've noticed that some people are calling for all 650 MPs to attend. This is nonsense as the room only allows for around 50 MPs to sit in the Westminster Hall Committee Room, therefore I can say in confidence that at around 600 MPs will not be in attendance but I'm sure some people will try and make political capital out of a very serious issue and accuse MPs of not being bothered to turn up. There is nothing stopping any MP asking for a similar debate in the House of Commons so all 650 MPs could attend. The online political hijacking of a debate of this nature is very sad to see. It is not helpful and is an insult to all the victims.

Just a reminder to the people of Gorton and Denton that Matthew Goodwin believes that even being born and brought up in the UK did not mean that people from black, Asian or other immigrant backgrounds were always British. He's a hard-right activist and Reform UK will try to soften this image.