Starmer tells Travelodge boss to engage with MPs over sexual assault case

PM tells Jo Boydell of concerns about her lack of availability to discuss how staff gave man access to victim’s room

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Keir Starmer has written to the chief executive of Travelodge to press the hotel chain to “seriously engage” with MPs raising concerns about its protocols after a woman was sexually assaulted by a man who was given her room number and a key card by staff.

MPs who had sought an urgent meeting with Jo Boydell said the case of Kyran Smith, 29, who was jailed for seven and a half years last month, raised “deeply concerning” questions. He attacked the woman after a party in December 2022.