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Labour has decided that the answer to violence against women and girls is to send boys as young as 11 on so-called “anti-misogyny” courses, wasting another £20m of your taxes on a policy based solely on watching the fictional Adolescence TV series on Netflix.
Violence against women and girls ruins lives. It destroys families. But let’s be clear: it is not 11-year-old boys who are causing the problem.
I have two daughters and a son. I know what parents today are worried about, and Labour’s plan targets the wrong people, at the wrong age, in the wrong place – and in doing so, it lets the real perpetrators off the hook.
Labour wants to present this as “prevention”. But prevention that starts by collectively blaming boys is not prevention at all – it is laziness.
Putting the onus on teachers to manage relationships, police attitudes, and deliver behavioural re-education programmes is a complete distraction from what actually stops violent crime: enforcement and punishment.
Teachers are there to educate, not to act as social workers, police officers or cultural enforcers for ministers who don’t want to take tough decisions.
Labour’s approach risks demonising boys before they’ve even started their lives. It tells them, implicitly, that there is something wrong with them – that they are a problem to be managed, rather than young people to be supported.
In 2020, when the Black Lives Matter protests crossed a line, I warned about the backlash this kind of collective guilt politics creates. By assuming all white people were racist and producing HR and teaching materials that attacked “whiteness”, rather than promoting equal treatment, the BLM leaders created exactly the opposite effect of what was intended. We saw a rise of ethno-nationalism and real racists shrugged and said: “Since everyone’s racist, what’s the problem?”
The same risk exists here. If you tell boys that they are the problem, you don’t create respect, you create resentment, you create backlash, and you risk radicalising the very people you claim to be helping.
If we are to halt the surge in misogyny in the UK, we must get serious and start enforcing the law and get more police officers on our streets.
Let’s also stop pretending that all cultures treat women equally. They don’t. We need to crack down on immigration from cultures that don’t respect women and deport foreign criminals as soon as they commit crimes. No ifs, no buts.
Lecturing schoolboys about respect, as Labour intend to do, is really an attempt to change the subject. The current Government don’t have the backbone to do what’s right.
@Conservatives take violence against women and girls seriously, because we focus on punishing the perpetrators, not performative gestures aimed at the innocent.
I’m the first to admit we were not perfect in government, but we delivered real criminal justice reform – introducing new offences for stalking, coercive control, upskirting and revenge pornography. We strengthened the law because we understand a basic truth Labour seems to have forgotten: crime is deterred when criminals know they will be caught and punished.
That’s why our offer is clear: more police on our streets – with a funded plan to recruit 10,000 extra officers. Enforcing the laws we already have, rather than endlessly announcing new “strategies”. More prison places and proper sentences so punishment is real, not theoretical. That is how you protect women and girls.
What boys need is guidance, structure, positive role models and clear expectations - not demonisation Conservatives want a society that believes in them, and provides them with opportunity, not one that will pit them against girls from an early age.
Labour’s plan sets young people against each other. Conservatives believe in building them up instead.
My words in the @Telegraph.