Bridget Phillipson: “I said that the public will see her for who she really is.”

Let’s be clear: this is no victory for Nigel Farage. The mountain of sleaze and scandal he and Reform are now engulfed in has grown and grown while he’s been trying to distract the public by fighting a by-election against a bin.

I worry that we are at kind of a ground zero in terms of attitudes around violence against women and girls.

We were elected with a five-year mandate in 2024, and I see no reason that we would depart from that.

Things that not very long ago felt totally unacceptable are becoming normal.