UK has got ‘fat’ on decades of free labour by women, says MP Jess Phillips

Minister points to ‘sexist’ practice of country relying on women to provide services so government did not have to

Labour MP Jess Phillips has said the UK has got “fat” from the free labour of women for decades.

The minister for safeguarding and violence against women and girls said the country has relied on women providing charity, adding it was a “fundamentally sexist” practice that meant the government was less willing to provide the service itself.