The campaigner was there as 'Melanie Brown MBE', rather than as a Spice Girl, she says.
Spice Girl Melanie Brown has spoken at a Conservative Party conference event to appeal for more support for domestic abuse victims.She became a patron for Women's Aid in 2018, after leaving what she called an abusive relationship.
She told the event she was "probably the last person you would expect to find at a Tory Party conference". "Every judge I have come across looks in complete horror like, 'Well, you look put together, you look all right, what is wrong with you?'""I couldn't pick up the phone to call my mum, my friends, I didn't have access to anything," she said.
Home Office minister Mims Davies told the audience: "As the minister for safeguarding, I have got a fairly big inbox and this is absolutely one of the crucial ones.
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