Baroness Louise Casey
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They've agreed to change the rape laws, which is a huge deal.
I think the legal profession don't like it at all because essentially it makes it really straightforward.
You know, have penetrative sex with a girl who's 13.
Job done, mate.
It's rape.
And there's no excuse for it.
So we're making progress, but it takes...
I think it takes, you know, the integration review I did for Theresa May and David Cameron after a huge extremism problem sat on the shelf.
And then you fast forward to things that have happened subsequently and thought maybe they've made a few of those recommendations and put them into practice.
We might be a better nation.
And you have to live with that, I think, actually.
I think that's too harsh a description for it.
The world... No, seriously, I think that's a too hard a description for it.
I think that what happened after Brexit was that... I mean, Brexit, doing that integration review, and actually I think Tracy Paul is in the audience today who did that with me, we knew from going around the country and listening to the sort of agonising call of pain...
that actually Brexit was going to go where it went.
Yeah, because this is pre the referendum.
Pre the referendum.
And so by the time we came to publish it, where I was saying, you know, wouldn't it be good if we all spoke the same language?
Perhaps we should actually have English classes for everybody of working age.