MP questions why there’s no “minister for men” in the UK

“Men are talked about all too often as a problem which must be rectified," he said. “Too often the constant drive for equality and diversity seeks to drag others down rather than lift everyone up.”

"They might struggle to find it when they’re told those things they thought were virtues – their good manners, wanting to provide for their family, wanting to be a man’s man, wanting to go to the football at the weekend and have some banter with the lads – are toxic, doing down the women around them," he said.

“Those manners they were taught on the way to respect women in their life is now sexist, that banter is now bullying.”