Ms Creasy hopes that misogyny will be recognised as a criminal offence – along with other hate-crimes tying into race, disability and other sexual offences.

Cat-calling or wolf-whistling means yelling or whistling at people in a “sexually suggestive” way.

Ms Creasy said: “This isn’t about creating new crimes but recognising as we do with racial and religious hatred when someone is being targeted because of who they are and saying it’s not for them to cope with it, but us all to stop it.” Read More…