This footage was filmed and produced 10 October 2023.

Women would have the right to know the identity of their online stalkers under a series of reforms proposed by Labour.

Shadow attorney general Emily Thornberry confirmed the Opposition’s intention to give women in co-habiting couples the same rights, including over property, as married women should their relationship end.

Labour would also seek to strengthen employment rights to safeguard women from abusive colleagues, with Marina Wheeler KC – ex-wife of Boris Johnson – among the experts helping the party.

On stalking, Ms Thornberry told the Labour Party conference in Liverpool that a woman is “200 times more likely” to be a victim of stalking than it is for her stalker to end up in prison.

She said: “It is time we treated stalking with the seriousness it deserves, strengthening the use of stalking protection orders, developing the right for women to know the identity of their online stalkers, and working to end the sick practice of stalkers abusing our court system to bring vexatious claims against their victims – because no woman should be forced to wait until she is attacked to get the protection she deserves.”

Ms Thornberry earlier said it felt as if the country was “trapped in some never-ending time loop of Tory incompetence, the Groundhog Day of gross dereliction, the multiverse of crapness”.