SHIPLEY MP Philip Davies has failed in his mission to have a bill in Parliament sought to tackle violence against women thrown out.

The motion to tackle "aggravated murder of and violence against women" was brought to the House of Commons this afternoon by Wealden Conservative MP Nustrat Ghani.

Mr Davies said he was not condoning violence against women but said such a bill should also include violence against men.

He told the House: "For the benefit of morons on Twitter, and for some in this House, I wish to make it clear that I, along with everyone else, am opposed to women suffering honour-based violence and I seem to be the only one in this House who opposes honour-based violence against men.

"We cannot let this trend of having laws that are unjustifiably aimed at dealing with just one gender take hold. Why can't it be for all victims?"

The Conservative said there was no more serious crime than murder and that there was nothing honourable about killing, but reiterated that both while both men and women were victims, there were more male victims of murder than females.

He added: "If I introduced a bill which said we were only going to care about families of male victims because there are more of them I suggest most of the people complaining would be up in arms.

"We should be bringing in gender mutual legislation that seeks to help all victims of crime and punishes all offenders of these crimes.

"The discriminatory premise of this bill is wrong."

After a vote the 'Ayes' approved the motion which will be brought back on Friday, March 24 for a second reading.

Mr Davies responded: "I'll be here."

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