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Former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has congratulated Apsana Begum (see 15:27), tweeting:
Congratulations @ApsanaBegum; Always knew you to be a woman of amazing strength and fortitude and yet again that has been proven.
More on Whitty assault (see 15:19): Kalsoom Shah, of the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), said Lewis Hughes showed “little regard” for Whitty or social distancing rules and that “his behaviour was both shocking and disgraceful”.
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