New MP Natalie Fleet reveals she was groomed by older man before giving birth at 15 as she says: 'I was a child and this is statutory rape'

A new MP who gave birth at just 15 years old has revealed she was ‘groomed’ by an older man. 

Labour MP Natalie Fleet, who now represents Bolsover after being elected in this year’s general election, told GB News that she suffered from ‘statutory rape’ as she was a child. 

The 40-year-old MP said: ‘That was an older man. That was potentially, I mean now we have labels like grooming that we didn’t have then.

‘I didn’t know we were having unprotected sex. I was a child and this is statutory rape. You know, at the time this isn’t something that we were talking about. It’s not how I saw myself.’

Fleet, who took over the seat Labour legend Dennis Skinner presided over for decades until 2019, admitted her family had been ‘struggling’ when she was growing up, at one stage finding themselves homeless before she gave birth to her daughter ‘at a very young age’.

Labour MP Natalie Fleet (pictured) now represents Bolsover after being elected in this year’s general election

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