Punish the men who pay for sex, instead of the women who are lured into that life | Sonia Sodha

Prostitution endangers lives, but sexual exploitation is allowed to flourish in the UK Labour’s most ambitious promise isn’t to achieve the highest sustained growth in the G7, or to transition the UK to carbon-free electricity by 2030. It’s to halve male violence against women and girls over the next decade. At least 100 women will be murdered by men by 2023. Achieving this would be an extraordinary achievement, transforming the experience of womanhood in the UK. But the real test of Labour’s commitment will be whether it is prepared to protect some of society’s most vulnerable women…