Street harassment law being blocked, says UK government adviser

Nimco Ali: ‘There is at times a very masculined conversation in how government and institutions work.’ Photograph: David M Benett/Getty Images

The UK government’s independent adviser on tackling violence against women and girls has suggested her calls for street harassment to be made a crime are being blocked.

Nimco Ali, a close friend of Boris and Carrie Johnson, told the BBC’s Political Thinking with Nick Robinson that her proposal had experienced “pushback” and hinted the prime minister had not fully supported it.