Minister complains to Speaker about Labour rape conviction remarks

Victoria Atkins says Ellie Reeves should retract statement that government had let off rapists and let survivors down'

A Home Office minister has privately written to the House of Commons Speaker to complain about the language used by a Labour frontbencher, suggesting she should be made to correct her remarks on rape convictions.

Victoria Atkins suggested in her letter to Sir Lindsay Hoyle that her Labour counterpart would deter victims by saying the government let off rapists and let survivors down".