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An open letter to the Prime Minister from teachers, charities and Baroness Benjamin

May 10, 2021

Women’s organisations, headteachers, children’s charities and parliamentarians have joined  Baroness Floella Benjamin in writing to the Prime Minister, calling on him to implement urgently Part  3 of the Digital Economy Act as an interim measure to help protect women and children through age verification and restrictions on extreme pornography.

Read the letter in full below…

 

LETTER TO THE PRIME MINISTER

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