https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🚨" title="Police cars revolving light" aria-label="Emoji: Police cars revolving light"> 60 cross-party MPs have called on Priti Patel and the Home Office to turn hotels into refuge spaces for those fleeing domestic abuse. My exclusive story in Friday’s Times https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/let-abuse-victims-stay-in-hotels-say-mps-0wmb2sbr3">https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/l...

https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🚨" title="Police cars revolving light" aria-label="Emoji: Police cars revolving light"> 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.