LABOUR: OUR PLEDGE TO PROTECT WOMEN

'Hopeless Tories treat violence as inevitable'

- MIKEY SMITH

BRITAIN has become "desensitised to stories about dead women", Labour's Yvette Cooper warned yesterday as she unveiled the party's plans to keep them safe.

The Shadow Home Secretary said governments have treated violence against women and girls as an inevitability, rather than "the emergency that it is".

She added too many are being let down by the police and the criminal justice system.

And she said: "We are sick and tired of women and girls facing the same threats of violence and abuse, generation after generation. Enough is enough." Ms Cooper cited the horrific cases of Sarah Everard and Raneem Oudeh.