Labour has delayed their much-touted Violence Against Women and Girls Strategy. An email from the Home Office’s Interpersonal Abuse Unit deputy director has quietly gone round saying they’re now “working towards September” publication date, asking recipients to “bear with us while we work through this with Ministers.” Kicked into the long grass…
Back in May, safeguarding minister Jess Phillips stood up in the Commons and promised the government would publish its new strategy on tackling violence against women and girls before the summer recess. She declared:
“The Government have set out an unprecedented mission to halve violence against women and girls within a decade, and we have already set out a number of transformative measures to overhaul the policing response to these terrible crimes. This includes announcing a £13 million investment in the new national centre for violence against women and girls and public protection, and we will publish the new violence against women and girls strategy before the summer recess.”
Phillips has form. She previously delayed the Casey Audit and is building a reputation for broken promises. Labour’s transformative mission looks increasingly like empty rhetoric…
Speaking at his speech on how to achieve “progressive capitalism” Wes Streeting fired a dig and Andy Burnham:
“Bond markets are not bond villains and fiscal rules matter.”