There’s a long track record in the commons of women MPs working cross party on VAWG *for a reason*, which is firstly that this doesn’t have to be a partisan issue & secondly that ‘cultures that don’t respect women’ has at times felt like a fair description of parliament.

If you needed a better example of the way politicians use and discard young teenage girls, this is it. The stats are there if you’d care to view them, Kemi

"dark arts" - or as normal people call it, "lying"