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MP Tom Watson has forgiven a researcher who plunged him into an internet row by pretending to be him - and making a joke about rape.
Mr Watson (Lab West Bromwich East), Labour's internet guru in his role as deputy party chair, said he had accepted an apology from the 21-year-old researcher and would not fire her, even though she sent an offensive message in his name.
The MP has also issued an apology after the researcher sent a message on Internet service Twitter stating: "I should log out of my twitter so that my intern doesn't twit-rape me..."
She used Mr Watson's Twitter account, which has 65,000 followers, so that the comment appeared to come from the MP himself.
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