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A conservative health minister has removed a tweet in which he shared a manipulated video of a far-right conspiracy theory about Labor leader Keir Starmer.
Nadine Dorries shared a clip from an anonymous Twitter account featuring a heavily edited video of Mr. Starmer during his time as Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP).
It was also shared and removed by two other conservative MPs, Lucy Allan and Maria Caufield.
Starmer was DPP until 2013, and ordered a restructuring of how the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) dealt with gang cases and admitted that the victims had failed.
In the unedited clip, which you can watch below, Mr. Starmer is seen explaining why the system he inherited to prosecute people who sexually abuse children was not fit for purpose.
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But the edited video instead cuts snippets of the video and claims to show in his own words “why he [Starmer] he didn’t prosecute grooming gangs when he was boss if he [sic] the Crown Prosecution Service. “
The account that posted the edited clip has since been removed.
The original clip reveals that Starmer is critical of his predecessors when discussing how the cases were handled.
“The approach taken in the past was the wrong approach,” said Starmer.
“It was based on a series of assumptions, which do not withstand scrutiny.
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“The guidelines change that, and require the police and prosecutors to focus intensely on the complaint that is really being made, and not so much on the weaknesses or vulnerabilities that invariably exist in some of the victims that are presented.”
Before Ms. Dorries deleted the tweet, a Labor source said, “This is a rigged video tweeted by a far-right social account.”
“As a government minister, we hope Nadine Dorries will recognize and remove it.”
In the unmodified clip, Starmer adds: “The assumptions made included the assumption that a child sexual abuse victim will quickly report what happened to the police, will be able to give a coherent and consistent explanation, the first time. That they themselves will not have engaged in any crime or other behavior, and that they will not have abused drugs or alcohol at any stage. “
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Those assumptions do not stand up to scrutiny. They have to change. “
Telford MP Lucy Allan deleted her Tweet but did not apologize.
Instead, he said: “There was a total failure on the part of the authorities to understand #security #security, a derogatory attitude towards the victims and the belief that the victims brought it to them.”
What many on Twitter have pointed out was the point Starmer was making.
Maria Caulfield’s account disappeared entirely from Twitter, and the website told those who tried to view her page that they had been suspended for violating the site’s rules.
Shadow Minister Dr. Rosena Allin Khan said it was “shameful that a government minister and conservative MPs shared a stain on the Labor leader from a far-right account, without questioning its accuracy.
“Why did this happen? Because the need to earn a political point outweighed the need to search for the truth. Shocking.”
Labor MP Wes Streeting said Dorries was spreading “false news”.
He tweeted: “You had time to do this despite being a minister in the Health Department during a public health crisis.
“It is malevolence or stupidity. Probably both.
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