Yes, the headline is real.
Labour MP Samantha Niblett has declared 2026 the “summer of sex”, and is launching a sex education campaign with “sextech” entrepreneur Cindy Gallop to ‘talk more openly’ about carnal pleasures. To that end, Niblett is promising to bring sex toys into Parliament to ‘encourage open conversation’. Parliament already has a black rod…
Niblett explains to PoliticsHome:
“What I am hoping is that by the time we get to summer recess, I have got a whole bank of organisations to visit and speak with and gather information, so we can talk about sex all summer, so that I can help shape that speech for the chamber, but then also we shape our next steps.”
She also admits to watching content on Gallop’s MakeLoveNotPorn site:
“It’s a turn on, it helps you masturbate, helps you cum… The sections that I always prefer the most are the intimate sections. I am not saying that anybody else’s preferences are wrong, but I think if you’re desensitised to think that some things are normal, it skews your view about what real sex is like with real people who are not acting in a porn film.”
The last thing anyone wants is for MPs to be talking openly about their sex lives. There are enough horrors in the world already…
Green Deputy Leader Rachel Millward said:
“The reality is that it’s Zack Polanski who brought the nation, Andy Burnham. And if we hadn’t had the success of the Green Party in this last year since Zack’s been leading, which has been unprecedented, phenomenal success and a growth from about 60,000 members to 230,000, if we hadn’t had that much pressure on Labour, then we’d probably still be in the Starmer regime, which was pretty much ushering in a Reform government with its lurch to the right. So actually, what we’re seeing now is that we’ve set the political agenda and the government is picking that up.”