The Labour MP Jess Phillips has said she is “tired that women’s safety matters so much less” than small boats in parliament, as she read a list of women killed by men over the past 12 months to a near-empty chamber.
For the past nine years, Phillips has read a list of women killed by men or where a man is the principal suspect in the UK. Describing the task as an honour, the former shadow minister for domestic violence and safeguarding described the task as an honour but said she had grown “weary and tired” of it.
