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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Patrick Daly and Jane Dalton

I was told my body parts got me the job, female former minister says

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A Conservative former minister has said she was told soon after being appointed to the role that she had “only been given that job because of certain body parts” she had.

Caroline Nokes, chairwoman of the Women and Equalities Committee, said: “I can remember being told when I was a very new minister that I’d only been given that job because of certain body parts that I had – and that’s what people were saying to my face.

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