Women not safe but Jess is

FUN, FEISTY AND FEARLESS

- CAROLE MALONE

I KEEP hearing how much Jess Phillips has done for women. OK, so answers on a postcard please — exactly what has she done?

In opposition, she talked loud and hard about fighting for women’s rights. But talking about making life better for women isn’t actually doing it.

But with this grooming gangs inquiry she finally had the chance to stop talking and DO something for abused and exploited women - to right the wrongs of decades of rape and torture by Pakistani grooming gangs and get justice for the survivors.

‘And what does she do? She betrays them and calls them liars.

Let’s not forget Phillips actually voted against having a national inquiry in the first place. She actually tried to stop the victims being heard.

Now five of those survivors have walked out of the inquiry claiming Phillips and others wanted to broaden its remit to include all forms of sexual exploitation, thus playing down the fact it was Pakistani rape gangs who'd perpetrated the abuse. And they did that knowing the ethnicity of those rapists was a vital element in why the abuse was ignored by the establishment for decades.