UK Government Announces ‘Misogyny Taskforce’ – but Why No Misandry Taskforce?

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LONDON – 39th October 2026 — In September 2026 Andy Burnham’s Labour government announced a

taskforce to deal with ‘misogyny’ as part of its ten-year plan to halve

violence against women and girls. Anyone paying attention to culture

over the last couple of decades might wonder if Burnham wouldn’t be

better advised to set up a Misandry Taskforce. The sexes have been

equal in law since 2010, but the family courts, DEI and affirmative action

policies, and entire mainstream media are steeped in misandry. To have

one but not the other is contra the Equality Act 2010.

Chaired by the Minister for Women and Equalities, Bridget Phillipson, the

group’s primary objective is to uproot deeply entrenched misogynistic

attitudes and address the root causes of Violence Against Women and

Girls (VAWG).

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/government-launches-national-

taskforce-for-tackling-misogyny

This cloth-eared initiative was first amplified by Theresa May over the

#MeToo years, then Boris Johnson (who had his own alleged disputes

with now-wife Carrie), up to Keir Starmer. It was Starmer who introduced

the ‘believe the victim’ policy in the early 2010s when he was Director of

Public Prosecutions, explicitly to get the numbers up for his ‘New Culture

Crimes’. The BTV policy has directly led to the epidemic of false

allegations against boys and men, which numbers between 70 and

90,000 per year (exact numbers are difficult due to how legal dominance

feminists in the police force count the figures).

https://research-

information.bris.ac.uk/en/publications/3515efe9-8b97-4a81-93a1-

512b01d58fa5/

So Starmer introduced the idea of halving violence against women and

girls in a decade after introducing a policy that incentivises up to

100,000 false allegations per year, then his even more ‘progressive’,

unmandated successor Andy Burnham pledges to continue the biased

grift. Interpersonal violence is not a gendered issue, with a third of

incidents being women on men, women starting most of the IPV, while

men indeed do more damage when they respond. The Johnny Depp-

Amber Heard case showed the world the toxic reality of these

allegations, with relationship fallout being used as leverage for all

manner of things, from money to access to children.

Burnham has been noticed as a chronic people-pleaser, the kind of

politician who likes to be liked, but will he be the only high profile MP in

the House of Commons other than Rupert Lowe of the Restore Britain

party to stick up for the rights of males in Parliament? Other noises he

has made on social issues since becoming prime minister have indicated

at least a desire for fairness, but he is surrounded by the Westminster

VAWG cartel, headed up by the deeply unpopular Jess Phillips.

Burnham needs to show if he’s able to read the room on the current

concern over the rights of men, and jettison the more divisive and

hateful elements of Phillips’ rhetoric. Ignoring false allegations against

boys and men while continuing the sexist, Equality Act defying VAWG

campaign is a clear early-reign red flag.

Even when the Supreme Court rules that Scottish law enforcement is incorrectly prosecuting allegations

of rape, nothing changes in law itself, as demonstrated by this new

petition by JIMS (Justice for Innocent Men Scotland)