UK Home Secretary Yvette Cooper has announced Labour’s plan to expand the Terrorism Act of 2000 to incorporate acts of misogyny under the umbrella of ‘terrorism’.

Essentially, the government is saying that threats of violence against women need to be treated as a ‘national security threat’.

It’s an astonishing thing to claim given no one has failed women and girls more horrifically than authorities who refused, for decades, to hunt down rape gangs due to fear of upsetting ethnic communities.