Jess Phillips was in the bank when she heard that a Ukip candidate had yet again been discussing whether he would rape her. She clearly looked shaken as she read the news on her phone because the manager asked her if she was all right. “I said ‘absolutely fine’ and it was like the woman who says she has walked into a door to explain her black eye,” she says. As soon as she went outside, she burst into tears. “I felt really vulnerable and upset. It’s not all right to be harassed and stalked and obsessed about by a man and all of his followers for years. It’s like coercive control, it follows the exact same pattern as domestic violence — to isolate