A Labour MP has claimed that left-wing sexists are the worst of them all and that men on the left are the "absolute worst".

Jess Phillips, the MP for Birmingham Yardley, accused left-wing men of benign neglect in the fight for sexual equality.

She told the Edinburgh International Book Festival the "well-meaning, left-leaning" men were worse than what someone else said are the “out and out sexists of the right”.

She said: "They [the left-wing men] are the worst, the actual worst”. Men said they supported better female representation but, when it came to losing their own jobs, they would say, ‘Oh, you mean me? But I am so clever. I’ve got so much to offer the world’. They are literally the worst."