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Page Three has often been controversial, especially with conservatives and women's groups.

Some critics consider it to be sexist, demeaning, and exploitative, while others regard it as softcore pornography that is inappropriate for publication in a national newspaper.

In 1986, Clare Short, Member of Parliament for Birmingham Ladywood, led an unsuccessful House of Commons campaign to have topless models banned from all British newspapers.

After her proposed bill failed, Short accused the House's predominantly conservative male MPs of not taking the issue seriously, remarking, " If you mention breasts, fifty Tory MPs all giggle and fall over.

" Short renewed her campaign against Page Three almost two decades later, in 2004, but found herself on the receiving end of an attack by the Sun, which superimposed her face on a Page Three model's body and accused her of being " fat and jealous.