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I didn’t know ... how strong I could be because cutting me was telling me that I’m not good enough.” FGM dates back to antiquity. Millions upon millions of women have been subjected to it, have suffered from it and have been devalued by it.
Michelle Thomson’s company boasted that the increase in the number of people struggling to pay their mortgage during the recession was “a great opportunity” and that if people were emotionally distant they could make a “huge profit”.
I hear the Labour members saying that that is ridiculous. Since the recession of 2008, under the Labour Government and the Tory-Liberal alliance, the minimum wage has failed to keep pace with the cost of living.
We do not know the figure for December 2013, because it has not been reported nationally, so we used the most up-to-date national data that is available.