2025-12-19
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0800 502 555 Yuan Xiong Yang Yue The government itself has called this an epidemic of violence and a national emergency.
Today this government says no more.
We are calling violence against women and girls the national emergency that it is.
We will be backing this strategy with over one billion in victims funding.
But it's not enough.
You can't promise to have violence against women and girls and not actually put up the money that needs to be there to do that.
As the government announces long-awaited plans to reduce violence against women and girls,
why is it looking in particular at misogyny in schools?
From The Guardians Today in Focus, this is the latest with me, Lucy Hoff.
I'm joined by Alexandra Topping, senior reporter at The Guardian.
Thanks so much for coming out to see us again.
Lexie, it's really nice to see you.
Thank you for having me.
So these are long-awaited plans, aren't they?
They've been much delayed.
The government, as a manifesto pledge,
said it wanted to halve rates of violence against women and girls.
Jess Phillips has just been speaking in the Commons with this shocking statistic that one in eight women is a victim of sexual assault,
domestic abuse or stalking.