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The government itself has called this an epidemic of violence and a national emergency.

Today this government says no more.

We are calling violence against women and girls the national

emergency that it is. We will be backing this strategy with over one billion in victims funding.

But it's not enough. You can't promise to have violence against women and girls and not actually

put up the money that needs to be there to do that. As the government announces long-awaited plans to reduce violence against women and girls,

why is it looking in particular at misogyny in schools?

From The Guardian's today in Focus, this is the latest with me, Lucy Hoff.

I'm joined by Alexandra Topping, senior reporter at The Guardian.

Thanks so much for coming up to see us again, Lexi.

It's really nice to see you.

So these are long-awaited plans, aren't they?

They've been much delayed.

The government as a manifesto pledge said it wanted to halve rates of violence against women and girls.

Jess Phillips has just been speaking in the

commons with this shocking statistic that one in eight women is a victim of sexual assault,

domestic abuse or stalking. You've been reporting into this for a long time. Talk to me about

the scale of the problem and why the government has prioritised this so much. Well, it's a huge

problem in the UK and throughout the

world, in fact. You know, you've mentioned that shocking statistic. Another one is that there are

200 rapes reported to the police in this country every single day, and that's just the ones that

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