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I think I'd concentrate on young women - particularly girls at school - and I would try and build into school curriculums much more education about relationships and how girls (and boys) can handle them: stuff about consent and that sort of thing.

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Jo Brand
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: May 3
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