Mims Davies, the shadow women’s minister, condemned Elon Musk's abusive language directed at Jess Phillips and others, taking a stronger stance than her leader, Kemi Badenoch. Davies supported Badenoch's call for a new national inquiry into grooming gangs while denouncing Musk's attacks, warning that such rhetoric could deter victims from seeking help.
The shadow women’s minister, Mims Davies, has condemned Elon Musk ’s abuse directed at Jess Phillips and others, in comments which went notably further than those of her leader, Kemi Badenoch. Speaking in a Commons debate on violence against women and girls, one scheduled by coincidence a day after furious exchanges about whether there should be a new national inquiry into so-called grooming gangs , Davies said she backed Badenoch’s call for the inquiry.
However, she strongly condemned Musk, who has called Phillips, the safeguarding minister, a “rape genocide apologist” and a “witch”. Davies also warned that such language could make it less likely that women and girls who are abused and raped would want to come forward. There was a good turnout for the debate, but no one attended from Reform UK, some of whose MPs had spoken out very robustly on Wednesday about grooming gangs and the need to better protect women and girls.
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