A brief summary of the Rape Gang Inquiry Report. It is one of the worst scandals in modern Britain, I think we can all agree! 😞 The courage and resilience of each victim is undeniable, and the failures are truly unforgivable 💔

A frightened woman recently reached out to me for help. She told me she and her village feel powerless. She lives in a small village where a hotel was closed to the public and used to house asylum seekers, without any warning to the people who live there. Since then, residents report two sexual assaults, teenage girls have been harassed, followed and chased as they get off the school bus, and one man has reportedly been standing at people's windows, taking photos inside their homes and trying to get into houses. A few days ago, she saw him approach a group of teenage girls as they got off the bus, telling them they had to give him "favours". The girls were terrified, so she stepped in and bravely put herself between them and the man. Days later, the same man stood outside her home making "I'm watching you" gestures, then drew his finger across his throat. She did everything right. She reported it. So did her neighbours, with more than 50 calls to the police in half an hour about one incident. But she told me that each time, he's simply taken back to the hotel. Nobody came to check on her after the threat, nobody updated her, and when she rang again she was told he might just need a welfare check. She's even been told to stop talking about it. When she tried to organise a community meeting online, her posts were reported and taken down. When women and girls are frightened in their own village, and the people who speak up are made to feel like the problem, something has gone badly wrong. It is not acceptable. The police, the Home Office and those running the hotel all have a duty to keep this community safe. When residents report the same man again and again, and the answer is to take him back to the hotel and walk away, that duty is not being met. Those in charge must be held to account, and they must be made to answer for every report that was brushed aside. So I've been helping her and her neighbours to take action. I've put together a full pack for them to use: a joint letter for residents to sign to their MP and Police and Crime Commissioner, a formal complaint about the police response, a letter to the school about the girls' safety, a request for a public meeting through their parish council, and forms so every incident is properly recorded. Facts, dates and reference numbers are much harder to ignore than worried phone calls. I'm not naming the village. Yet. This is about getting results for the women and girls living there, not about putting anyone at further risk. If something similar is happening where you live, please don't stay silent. Keep a record, report everything, and reach out. You don't have to do it on your own, and you are NOT powerless.

I'm really pleased to share that, following my complaint, the @TheOxfordMail has reviewed its Facebook post about the Bicester march over asylum accommodation and removed the phrase "far-right". Their editorial team confirmed the label didn't seem to apply to the story, and that no political parties were mentioned in it. The people on that march were simply mums, grandparents, daughters and local residents standing up for their community and asking reasonable questions about the safety of women and girls. How labels like this are used matters, and inaccurate reporting should always be challenged and put right. I've now written back asking the Oxford Mail to publish a correction notice so that readers who saw the original post know it has been changed, and to confirm how they'll avoid this happening again in future. A great result so far.

The fight is ours. For them.

On 10 October I contacted the Oxford Mail about its Facebook post calling the planned Bicester march "far-right". I asked them what the label was based on, why it appeared in the caption but not the headline, and why they illustrated it with a photo of local residents, many of them women. I gave them 7 days to reply. They haven't. So here is the letter in full. Women raising concerns about safety in their own community are not "far-right", and local papers shouldn't be telling readers they are. If the Oxford Mail can't back up that label, it should correct it. I've now asked them to treat this as a formal complaint, and I'll be taking it to IPSO if they don't put it right. The media must be held accountable when they attach damaging labels to people based on nothing more than opinion. I will keep you all updated... @MaxineFothergil @RestoreBritain @watton_stuart @lizzie_hawes

A sick pervert, Ian Whyte, 62, from Edinburgh, put vodka in a BABY'S bottle before sexually assaulting her when she was under a year old. She was just one of six victims, aged from a baby to 15 years old, that he abused over two decades, between 1978 and 1998. He denied all of it and called them liars. But on Wednesday he was finally jailed for 12 years. And this wasn't his first conviction either. He had already served four years in the late 1990s for other sexual assaults. The system had him, let him go, and then left these victims waiting decades to be believed. 12 years. For six children. Our courts keep telling us they take child protection seriously, yet sentences like this tell a very different story. Under Restore Britain, monsters like this will face real justice.

Former Prime Minister Keir Starmer will be summoned to give evidence at the national grooming gangs inquiry, where he has been listed as a core participant. The public hearings are expected to open on 14th December. I hope he's the first of many to face questions…