{"id":215230,"date":"2023-10-07T17:51:29","date_gmt":"2023-10-07T17:51:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bestwnews.com\/?p=215230"},"modified":"2023-10-07T17:51:29","modified_gmt":"2023-10-07T17:51:29","slug":"starmer-pledges-to-take-on-tech-firms-creating-abuse-against-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bestwnews.com\/world-news\/starmer-pledges-to-take-on-tech-firms-creating-abuse-against-women\/","title":{"rendered":"Starmer pledges to take on tech firms creating abuse against women"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Sir Keir Starmer pledges to &#8216;drain the swamp&#8217; of hate and inequality and take on tech companies creating &#8216;toxic attitudes&#8217; towards women in speech at Labour conference<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Labour leader also committed to victims&#8217; legislation and domestic abuse register<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Sir Keir Starmer pledged to take on tech companies who were helping create &#8216;toxic attitudes&#8217; towards women.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Labour leader said a government led by him would &#8216;drain the swamp of hate and inequality&#8217; by tackling online abuse and cracking down on violence against women and girls.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In a speech to his party&#8217;s women&#8217;s conference, Sir Keir said there were still &#8216;many battles to win&#8217; to defend the right &#8216;not to be objectified, demeaned, judged, or worse&#8217;.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He said: &#8216;We have seen women holding powerful men to account, women coming forward with allegations about serious sexual violence, who were then quickly disparaged or dismissed online, even threatened.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;It is a sharp reminder of the hard road we must walk to eradicate toxic attitudes towards women from our society.&#8217;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/07\/18\/76281403-12605569-image-a-17_1696699091320.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>At his party&#8217;s women&#8217;s conference, Sir Keir Starmer pledged to crack down on online abuse and hate against women<\/p>\n<p>Addressing the audience in Liverpool on the eve of his party&#8217;s main conference, potentially the last before a general election, Sir Keir said his party would deliver &#8216;the reward of reform&#8217; by changing the way violence against women and girls was addressed.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The police would be reformed to &#8216;tackle this scourge head on&#8217;, with specialist rape units, domestic abuse workers in control rooms and better training for officers.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>There would be &#8216;proper&#8217; victims&#8217; legislation, a domestic abuse register and &#8216;we&#8217;ll take on the tech companies who push misogyny into the minds of our children for profit&#8217;.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He added: &#8216;The broader lesson is this: don&#8217;t succumb to the Tory project, the hope they want to kick out of our country. Government can make the difference for women and working people.&#8217;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Sir Keir said Labour would offer a &#8216;simple message&#8217; to voters that it would &#8216;make a practical difference to the lives of millions of women in this country&#8217;.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/07\/18\/76281399-12605569-image-a-18_1696699107569.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Among Sir Keir&#8217;s promises were a proper &#8216;victims&#8217; legislation and a domestic abuse register<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Rachel Reeves said she wanted to break the &#8216;glass ceiling&#8217; at the Treasury by becoming the first woman to hold the office of chancellor of the exchequer.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The shadow chancellor said: &#8216;I have spent my entire professional career in the worlds of economics and politics. &#8216;<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;When you do that, you get used to a world that doesn&#8217;t look a lot like modern Britain.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Eight hundred years of the office of chancellor of the exchequer, not one single woman to be found.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;There are still glass ceilings to break and it will be the privilege of my life to break this one.&#8217;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-12605569\/Sir-Keir-Starmer-pledges-drain-swamp-hate-inequality-tech-companies-creating-toxic-attitudes-women-speech-Labour-conference.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sir Keir Starmer pledges to &#8216;drain the swamp&#8217; 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