Research reveals huge scale of social media misogyny

Labour's Yvette Cooper is at forefront of cross-party campaign aiming to tackle the growing menace of online abuse

Labour, Conservative and Liberal Democrat politicians will come together to call for a national campaign to defeat online misogyny as research reveals the scale of abuse aimed at women on social media.

Yvette Cooper is joining forces with the former Tory minister Maria Miller, former Lib Dem MP Jo Swinson and Labour's Jess Phillips to launch an online public consultation in an attempt to create a national conversation about tackling the growing scale of online abuse.