Angela Rayner today blasted back at newspaper bosses who have refused to back down over a sexist article about her legs.
Labour's deputy leader hit back after the Mail on Sunday's editor refused to attend a meeting with the Commons Speaker.
A row erupted at the weekend over a story, quoting a source, which claimed Ms Rayner crossed and uncrossed her legs at PMQs to put Boris Johnson off his stride like Sharon Stone in the film Basic Instinct.
The newspaper's daily sister paper today stood by the story, which also compared her background to Boris Johnson's Oxford education, pointing out Ms Rayner had joked about the matter on a podcast.
She said in January "I don't need to do that" to distract the PM and she was "mortified" by the comparison, adding there was a "tiny of misogyny" about how she was described.
Today Ms Rayner hit back on Twitter : "I said to Matt Forde in January that the sexist film parody about me was misogynistic and it still is now.
"As women we sometimes try to brush aside the sexism we face, but that doesn’t make it ok.
"The Mail implies today that I somehow enjoy being subjected to sexist slurs. I don’t. They are mortifying and deeply hurtful.
"‘She loves it really’ is a typical excuse so many women are familiar with. But it can’t be women’s responsibility to call it out every time.
"I don’t need anyone to explain sexism to me - I experience it every day.
"Boris Johnson gave assurances he would unleash ‘the terrors of the earth’ on the Tory MPs spreading this vile sexism. I hope to hear what he’ll be doing about it today."
Commons Speaker Lindsay Hoyle summoned the editor of the Mail on Sunday for a meeting over the "offensive" article.
Mr Hoyle told the Commons the story was based on "unsubstantiated claims" and caused "misogynistic offence".
He added: "The story can only deter women who might consider standing for election," Mr Hoyle told MPs in the Commons.
But Mail on Sunday editor David Dillon rejected the invitation. In a response published in the Daily Mail, Mr Dillon said he and his political editor Glen Owen would not be attending as journalists should "not take instruction from officials of the House of Commons, however august they may be".
And Downing Street slapped down the Speaker for wading in, saying Mr Johnson was "uncomfortable" with the idea of politicians summoning journalists for a dressing down.
The Prime Minister's official spokesman said: "The Prime Minister is uncomfortable at the idea of our free press being summoned by politicians.
"We have a free press in this country and reporters must be free to report what they are told as they see fit."
The spokesman said Mr Johnson would not want "any perception of politicians seeking to in any way curb or control what a free press seeks to report".
Mr Hoyle confirmed he will also be meeting Tory MP Caroline Nokes, chair of the Commons Equalities Committee after she suggested the journalist who wrote the story should have his Parliamentary lobby pass revoked.
Angela Rayner will be the next British Deputy Prime Minister, Keir Starmer insisted after condemning Parliamentary culture as "sexist and misogynistic".
The Labour leader praised his colleagues as a "fantastic and formidable woman" and a "brilliant politician" in her own right who has so much to offer the British people.
