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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
Politics
Aletha Adu

Silence as MP Jess Phillips reads names of 127 murdered women in Parliament - full list

Labour MP Jess Phillips today paid tribute to women who have been killed in the past year where a man has been charged or convicted.

The MP for Birmingham Yardley spent almost five and a half minutes reading out the names of more than 120 women in the Commons.

The Commons chamber fell silent as Ms Phillips highlighted that behind every death there was a story where better victim support or mental health services could have saved the woman's life.

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