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Women's rights campaigners say no to Tory ‘rape apologist’
Nick Conrad, a former BBC radio host and Tory MP candidate for Broadland in Norfolk, said women should ‘keep their knickers on’ to avoid ‘giving the wrong signals’
Tory party candidate Nick Conrad

A FORMER radio host who said women should “keep their knickers on” to avoid “giving the wrong signals” is unfit to hold public office, women’s rights campaigners warned yesterday.

Nick Conrad will run as the Tory candidate for the parliamentary seat of Broadland in Norfolk, held by retiring Tory MP Keith Simpson. 

During a discussion on the rape case against footballer Ched Evans on his BBC Radio Norfolk show in 2014, Mr Conrad said women “need to be more aware of a man’s sexual desires.”

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