THE government fails to understand the seriousness of violence against women, Labour warned today after Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said it was “case closed” on the Home Secretary’s spiking “joke.”

James Cleverly continues to face calls to resign from campaigners after he told guests at a Downing Street reception that “a little bit of rohypnol” in his wife’s drink every night was “not really illegal if it’s only a little bit.”

He also quipped that the secret to a long marriage was making sure your spouse was “someone who is always mildly sedated so she can never realise there are better men out there.”