LABOUR PARTY TRIED TO COVER UP RAPE
Labour 'tried to cover up rape'
Party official suggested allegation would harm my career, says female activist
Bex Bailey said she was discouraged from reporting the alleged attack
A senior Labour official tried to cover up the alleged rape of a member of staff at a party event, it was claimed yesterday as the Westminster sex scandal deepened.
Bex Bailey, 25, a former member of the national executive committee, waived her right to anonymity to reveal that she had been raped during a party event in 2011 when she was 19. When she tried to report the incident two years later she claimed that the official tried to dissuade her because it could damage her career.
The allegation is the most serious yet in a growing storm over sexual misconduct in politics. In a separate claim made yesterday, a parliamentary staff member said that she had been sexually assaulted by an MP
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