HOMELESSNESS

In support of women's refuges

Baroness Claire Fox warns that proposed legislation to help councils protect women facing domestic violence could end up with unintended consequences.

The brutal and tragic murder of Sarah Everard has started a national conversation on violence against women. Some of this seems overblown and teeters on scaremongering.

I do not recognise this picture of femicide – an ‘epidemic of misogyny' and institutionalised women-hating.

Claire Fox

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