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Claudia Savage

Jess Phillips honours femicide victims and says Government will ‘push harder’

Safeguarding minister Jess Phillips read the names of women killed by men in the past year to Parliament (PA) - (PA Wire)

Jess Phillips has pledged the Government will “go further and push harder” as she read in Parliament the names of women killed by men in the past year.

It is the 10th year the Labour MP for Birmingham Yardley has honoured victims of femicide, this year being her first to do so as the minister for safeguarding and violence against women and girls.

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