Ministers warned action not ‘warm words’ needed to tackle violence against women
The IndependentFor free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Please enter a valid email address Please enter a valid email address SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Please try again later {{ /verifyErrors }} Bereaved families and campaigners warned “lessons are not being learned” to deal with violence against women and girls, telling ministers: “Warm words are no longer enough.” They stood in silence in the House of Commons public gallery as Labour MP Jess Phillips spent almost five minutes reading out the names of women killed in the UK in the last year, where the primary suspect or known killer is a man. The MP for Birmingham Yardley mentioned 108 women in total but warned many more deaths are not recorded and others suffer “terrible domestic abuse and violence”. It never is Jess Phillips, MP Ms Phillips, speaking during the annual International Women’s Day debate in the Commons, said: “I have read hundreds of inquest reports and domestic homicide reviews over the years. Ms Devey said her world “came to a halt” when she got news of her daughter’s death, and feels “nothing has changed” since her name was read out in Parliament in 2019.
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