A row has erupted after a former Minister in the UK said that women should be grateful for being called names like 'totty' by men at work.
It's after a Tory MP made the comment to a female journalist, saying he wanted to 'talk to the totty'.
Last night, an MP who I've only met a couple of times actually said to me as his opening gambit "I want to talk to the totty."
— Isabel Hardman (@IsabelHardman) April 12, 2016
The journalist Isabel Hardman - who's Assistant Editor at Spectator Magazine in the UK - says the MP later apologised over his 'inappropriate behaviour'.
But former Conservative MP Edwina Currie has fueled the debate, by claiming the journalist should have been grateful for the she thinks was a compliment.
Don't be too quick to take offence, or you'll fail to distinguish between compliments and genuine creepy harassment https://t.co/9wdYyxY1sv
— Edwina Currie (@Edwina_Currie) April 20, 2016
Was the journalist right to report him, or was it a compliment?
Helen Vaughan reports.
