Marina Wheeler KC to be tasked with strengthening rights to safeguard women who report workplace harassment
is set to be appointed as Labour’s new “whistleblowing tsar”, offering advice on proposed protections for women against workplace harassment.
Wheeler is the second high-profile woman from outside party politics to join Keir Starmer’s team. Former civil servant Sue Gray, whose report into lockdown-busting parties in Downing Street during Johnson’s tenure contributed to his downfall, Labour would also seek to give common-law wives who live with their partners the same rights, including over property, as married women should their relationship end.She told the newspaper it would be a “privilege” to help Labour protect women from abusive colleagues saying: “ too often suffer sexual harassment and assault and they pay a heavy price for speaking out. Knowing this, and to keep their jobs, they suffer in silence.
She will tell delegates: “That is the difference between a Tory government that pretends to care about women’s rights, and a Labour party that delivers them.”
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