Ex-Spice Girl Mel B tells Tory conference of need for domestic abuse reforms

Singer tells event societal change is required if the lives of women are to be freed from threat of abuse

The former Spice Girl Melanie Brown has told an event at the Conservative party conference of her fears that the massive issue of domestic abuse" will slip down the agenda during these times of absolute economic chaos".

The singer, known to millions as Mel B or Scary Spice", was speaking at a meeting organised by the Sun and Women's Aid, which she became a patron of in 2018 after leaving what she described as an abusive relationship.