🚨 These 60 Conservative, Lib Dems, Labour, SNP, SDLP and DUP MPs also want:
- ringfenced funding for refuges
- legal amendments to ensure those fleeing violence or threats are considered ‘priority need’ by housing services.

Demand made after Refuge reported a 25% rise in calls
Story on page two of today’s Times, including Home Office response: “We will continue working with law enforcement and DA commissioner to further ramp up our efforts to protect victims of abuse”
Full letter from cross-party group of MPs calling for more to be done by Home Office to protect victims of domestic abuse
And apologies, story is in *Saturday’s* Times not Friday’s
Priti Patel’s promise of a public awareness campaign via drawing hearts on our palms (in-between washing them) and £2m in extra funding for domestic abuse charities works out to *95p* per victim, if we’re using the ONS’s most recent data on domestic violence.
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