Coming up on the Peston podcast, how do we make our streets and homes safer for women? Has the Me Too movement led to a reduction in sexism?

And why are the under 50s being asked to wait longer for their vaccinations?

I'll be talking about all this and more with Pity Patel, the Home Secretary.

Sir Paul Nurse, the Nobel Prize winning director of the Crick Institute, Roxanne Gay, the writer and activist.

Jess Phillips, the Labour frontbet spokesman on domestic violence, and Maria Miller, the Tory former chair of the Women and Equalities Committee and a former Cabinet Minister.

Jess Phillips, if I can pick up with you first, I mean, I know that your complaint against the government is that the current police bill simply doesn't do enough to make sure that men who commit violent crimes against women are punished properly. But it does increase the tariff for the most serious sexual assault.

So why did Labour vote against the bill?

I mean, when you say it does increase the tariff for the most serious sexual assaults,

this bill actually, what it does is it increases the whole life tariff. It's a life tariff.

That sometimes includes rape.

Now, as somebody who has dealt with thousands of cases of rape in my career,

I can't think of a single example when a life tariff was given for rape.

And even the Prime Minister had to admit today that the average conviction, the amount of time, for those that get convicted,

which is a vanishingly small amount, we're talking 1%, 1.5% tops of people who actually get convicted

of the rapes that are committed would ever receive a life tariff. And the reality is that I can't ask the government this question about how long the sentencing

is because they don't even collect the data.

The reason I voted against this bill is because it does more to silence women from protesting

about violence against women and girls

than it does to protect them.

And I think that, to be honest, I think that the government have found themselves on the hoof.

They've been shocked by the response.

They've been shocked by us asking and begging on behalf of the women in the country to be included.

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