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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Rajeev Syal Home affairs editor

Rewrite ‘victim-blaming’ drink-spiking campaign, UK civil servants told

Women drinking beer
In a YouGov poll in December 2022, 10% of women and 5% of men said they had been spiked. Photograph: ViewApart/Getty Images/iStockphoto

Civil servants were told to rewrite a proposed social media campaign to combat drink-spiking after the original appeared to blame victims, a minister has told Labour conference delegates.

Alex Davies-Jones, the minister for violence against women and girls, suggested that Whitehall encouraged a “culture of victim blaming” and should instead focus on stopping perpetrators.

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