Going forward, she hopes the new Prime Minister Andy Burnham will be supportive of the campaign, including her calls for a ministerial post to be dedicated to the issue of sex education and wellbeing.<\/p>\n
The MP added despite initial reluctance, a number of her colleagues on her own Labour backbenches were beginning to come around to supporting the campaign.<\/p>\n
Niblett said she believed a lot of minds had “changed already” and added her backbench debate, due to take place in the autumn, had cross-party support. <\/p>\n
She said: “An initial giggly response has turned into ‘well, this is quite serious isn’t it?'”<\/p>\n
Niblett says she has also received support from people working within the NHS and the probation service, as well as high-profile figures like actress Emma Thompson. <\/p>\n
In a video shared by the MP last month, Thompson said: “I’m backing Samantha and Cindy’s campaign for lifelong sex education, which is not party political, but it is critical.”<\/p>\n
Reflecting on the fallout amid the launch of her “summer of sex” campaign, Niblett says more and more are starting to recognise her for this work.<\/p>\n
“It’s just been wonderful,” she says. “People are now starting to recognise me… it’s, ‘oh, you’re that sex MP, aren’t you?’<\/p>\n
“I think as it picks up support across the country, you’ll probably find more of my colleagues feeling comfortable to put their head above the parapet and talk about it.<\/p>\n
“It’s really important – that when somebody else tries to grab the microphone and diminish what you’re doing – you grab it back.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Going forward, she hopes the new Prime Minister Andy Burnham will be supportive of the campaign, including her…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":711613,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-711612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=711612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711612\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/711613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=711612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=711612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=711612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}