Labour MP Natalie Fleet says she was pregnant at 15 after being groomed

“I really want to be a voice for all of those people, all of those women that have children in far from ideal circumstances,” Ms Fleet said.

Ms Fleet said her family struggled when she was growing up and at one point found themselves homeless.

She said she was groomed by an “older man” and at 15 years old “didn’t know we were having unprotected sex”.

“At the time, this isn’t something that we were talking about,” she said. “It’s not how I saw myself.”

She said the older man told her to have an abortion when she became pregnant as a teenager.

The MP told the broadcaster she gave birth to a daughter and felt “full of shame, and guilt and responsibility”.

Looking back on the situation, Ms Fleet said it “wasn’t okay”.

“All I was determined to do was make sure that she had a life that was as good as she would have had to any age parent,” she said. “That was what I was determined to do, I didn’t think about me or the impact.”