Nigel Farage and Kemi Badenoch have “weaponised” violence against women and girls “for political point-scoring” but do not care about the real issue, Labour chair Bridget Phillipson has claimed.
In an interview with The Independent, Ms Phillipson, the cabinet minister for women and equalities, lambasted Britain’s two main right-wing parties for ignoring what she describes as “a national emergency” in women’s safety.