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Lol, her words slapped Labour into a corner. She stepped down before being sacked. That much was obvious. Corbyn said outright that the Labour party wouldn't blame any particular group. If you believe that bollox, that she quit out of honour, then you're more gullible, than I thought you was. It was a career saving move. I take it, you've never asked someone to resign, before you sack them then?

'Truth is impossible'
She wrote: "Britain has a problem with British-Pakistani men raping and exploiting white girls.

"There. I said it. Does that make me a racist? Or am I just prepared to call out this horrifying problem for what it is?"

In the newspaper, the column was accompanied by another article by former Sun political editor Trevor Kavanagh, which referred to "the Muslim Problem".

Mr Kavanagh's article was condemned in an open letter signed by more than 100 MPs, including Ms Champion herself, who said she was horrified that an "extreme Islamaphobic" column had quoted her.

A spokeswoman for the Sun said: "Sarah Champion's column, as it appeared on Friday, was approved by her team and her adviser twice contacted us thereafter to say she was 'thrilled' with the piece and it 'looked great'.

"Indeed, her only objection after the article appeared was her belief that her picture byline looked unflattering. Her office submitted five new pictures for further use."

Communities Secretary Sajid Javid suggested that Ms Champion had been sacked and criticised the Labour leader, tweeting: "Corbyn wrong to sack Sarah Champion. We need an honest open debate on child ***ual exploitation, including racial motivation."

Former UKIP leader Nigel Farage said in a tweet: "Telling the truth about tough issues is now impossible in the modern Labour Party. Pathetic."

…and yet you suggested (I think, not always easy to tell with you) in post #3515 that Sarah Champion’s resignation was ‘only last year’ and it wasn’t. It was almost 8(!) years ago, in August 2017. It had nothing to do with Starmer’s leadership and while I happen to believe that, like Jess Phillips, she is a very well intentioned MP who does much more good than harm, her choice of words in this specific example was incorrect.

P.S. I’ve never been in the unpleasant situation of having to sack anyone and I doubt very much that you have.