Labor’s mayor for West Yorkshire, Tracy Brabin: I see you do it. And it is arrogance that it is above the law. “I think unfortunately it comes from the top. This behavior will only worsen due to the omission of the leader’s duty. If you do not drive with principles, dignity, contentment and equality, then it is a wild west. It’s free for everyone. “ Her comments came amid renewed focus on misogyny and sexual misconduct in parliament, with a number of women lawmakers appearing with examples of sexism and harassment. Labor and some senior Conservatives have asked why the whip has not been withdrawn by the pornography lawmaker, who has been spotted by two party colleagues. Conservative leader Chris Heaton-Harris said the anonymous lawmaker should be referred to an independent complaints process. Braben, a former Labor and Spine Labor MP, is the only woman among the 10 metro mayors in England. She heads the M10 mayoral group, which includes Conservatives Andy Street and Labor Sadiq Khan, and represents 2.3 million people in West Yorkshire – meaning she is the most powerful Labor woman outside of Westminster. In an interview for the first year of her term, Brabin said she felt more pressure to become the only woman and that political parties, including Labor, needed to do more to bring women to the forefront. Subscribe to the First Edition, our free daily newsletter – every morning at 7am Brabin, a former Coronation Street actress, said she had not been immediately half-hearted in five years in parliament because, she said, there was cross-party affection for her after the murder of her friend and predecessor, Joe Cox. The former shadow culture secretary has been subjected to a series of harassment on the Internet after wearing a garment that showed part of her shoulder as she spoke to the mailbox in February 2020. She responded to her criminals by writing on Twitter at the time that “it was not slag. hangover, tart, getting ready to breastfeed, slapped, drunk [or] just hit a bucket of wheels. “ He said: “It was really shocking. It was not scary, it was just shocking. The men interpreted what happened in a sexual way. People say about Boris Johnson or other people who come in the box: “They look tired or sloppy”, but it does not become sexual. “Women are always sexualized.” Brabin compared the sexualized cyberbullying to comments by Tory lawmakers who accused Labor Vice President Angela Reiner of using a “basic instinct” ploy to distract the prime minister by staring at the prime minister. “That’s what happened to Angie,” he said. “It doesn’t say much about Boris Johnson that his colleagues think he’s so easily distracted by a teenager who just can’t hold it in his pants, but maybe they know him better than we do.”
