MPs listened in silence on Wednesday as Jess Phillips read out the names of all the women killed by men in the last year in the UK during a debate to mark International Women’s Day in the House of Commons. The Labour MP for Birmingham Yardley warned of the prevalence of violence against women, saying: 'Killed women are not vanishingly rare, killed women are common.' Her comments come in the wake of the kidnapping and murder of Sarah Everard in London last week.

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