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The video sharing platform Youtube has suspended Russell Brand’s ability to make money from adverts on his channels – saying he had violated their “creator responsibility policy” after serious allegations made against him. 

The Conservative MP Caroline Nokes, who chairs the Women and Equalities committee, joins me now.

Dorothy Byrne spent more than 15 years as head of news and current affairs at Channel 4 – she’s currently president of Murray Edwards College, Cambridge. We spoke to her about what she’s made of what’s unfolded since the investigation aired.

The promotors of Russell Brand’s tour of UK theatres have postponed the remaining three shows scheduled for this month – after the Met Police said they had received a report of an alleged sexual assault in central London in 2003.