Keith: "The reason I think other parties do not have such a problem is that A.Their women MPs do not write en-masse to complain like Labour's do, and B. Because there is a "Labour Too" movement but no equivalent for any other party."

Keith, I would draw the exact opposite conclusion from the evidence you provided. If we accept your inference, then by parity of reasoning, present-day, democratic countries with strong feminist movements are the setting for the exponentially greatest frequency of sexual harassment in recorded history.

To take a recent example, in the 90s, when women accused Bill Clinton of sexual harassment there was no groundswell of Democratic women picking up the torches and pitchforks to oppose his nomination--and renomination. Are you going to tell me with a straight face that was because there wasn't any back then?

Protest and ruckus swell not when conditions are worst, but when there is some hope of change. I apologize for repeating a truism, but it seems necessary.

Similarly, in the US, senior legislator John Conyers and Boy-Wonder Senator Al Franken, both Democratic heroes, were forced out by their own party, while Republican intra-party pressure on alleged child abusers and serial wife beaters has been slight, tardy, and reluctant.

The absence of a coordinated protest among Tory women in light of . . . well, reality, is chilling to me, not reassuring.