‘I am weary’: Jess Phillips reads MPs list of women killed by men for ninth year

Labour shadow minister says she is ‘tired of fighting for systemic change and being given scraps’ and laments ‘collective failure’

The Labour MP Jess Phillips has said she is “tired that women’s safety matters so much less” than small boats in parliament, as she read a list of women killed by men over the past 12 months to a near-empty chamber.

For the past nine years, Phillips has read a list of women killed by men or where a man is the principal suspect in the UK. The shadow minister for domestic violence and safeguarding described the task as an honour but said she had grown “weary and tired” of it.