Martin Daubney has hit out at the Labour Party, accusing them of “lacking the guts to act” on rising misogyny in the UK.

Martin drew on his experience speaking with tens of thousands of teenagers and making the documentary Porn on the Brain, warning that labelling young men as “toxic” could do more harm than good.

The row comes as it was revealed that teachers will be trained to identify early signs of misogyny in boys and intervene, as part of the Government’s long-awaited strategy to tackle violence against women and girls.

Sir Keir Starmer warned that “too often toxic ideas are taking hold early and going unchallenged”, noting that more than 40 per cent of young men reportedly hold a positive view of misogynistic influencer Andrew Tate.

Speaking on The People’s Channel, Martin said: “I speak with some experience on having in a previous life, I spoke with over 50,000 British teenagers.

“I made a documentary called Porn on the Brain for Channel Four. I used to edit a men’s magazine and a previous Government, David Cameron’s Government. It was the great porn panic of 2013.

“They were convinced young men were just waiting to be sex predators. They were just waiting for stimulus. It’s the same again now.

“And I was also concerned earlier on, when Jess Phillips said she would even entertain looking at an Australian-style social media ban.

“Is this not a Government that’s just interfering in our children’s lives in a way just doesn’t need to know?”

Labour commentator Eve McQuillan responded: “I don’t think so. I think we’ve demonstrably got a problem, and I think this is a Government that’s actually taking the initiative.

“If we look at how we intervene with people who are radicalised for other reasons, the far right, radical Islam, etc we need to see strong support, catching these things early, educating young men, educating anyone involved in that, and taking them away from it.

“This is exactly the same approach: identifying the problem and then working with someone before it becomes a bigger issue.

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“The way misogyny is working in society today is changing. We have the old regressive stereotypes, women should be at home, etc. and violence when women break out of their stereotypes; that’s the old pattern of misogyny.

“But now we’re seeing Andrew Tate. We’re seeing these ideas being bandied around through TikTok and other apps, and seeing how it’s affecting people’s brains, the dopamine hit you get in your brain. So we need to take a different approach to get in there and deal with this problem.”

Martin fumed: “I just don’t believe that the likes of Andrew Tate, and again, I talk from huge experience, are the problem. The issue is he’s an idiot. He’s an imbecile. He exploits vulnerable young lads.

“But I’ve spoken with hundreds of parents in schools, and they tell me they’re really concerned about their boys being identified in classrooms as problems, as toxic, as walking potential sex criminals.

“A lot of beautiful young boys just retreat. They vanish into video games, pornography, and isolation.

“And it won’t stop genuine misogyny. And that’s my point. It’s a blunderbuss against all boys. What we need is to target individual cultures and backgrounds. This Labour Party hasn’t got the guts to do it.”

She hit back: “This is about targeting the kids who are actually expressing ideas that are risky and about. You can do it gently, but you need to identify those kids who are expressing problem views.”

Martin said: “But if you look at per capita offences, here’s the conversation the Labour Party simply don’t want to have.

“For example, we know the data shows us that if you’re from Afghanistan, you’re 22 times more likely to commit a sexual offence in Britain than if you’re born as a white Briton. These are the facts. Labour don’t like those kinds of facts.”

Labour has formally unveiled a £20million package of measures, with £16million coming from the taxpayer and £4million from philanthropists and partners.

Teachers received specialist training on how to talk to pupils about issues like consent and the dangers of sharing intimate images, and all secondary school pupils in England were taught about healthy relationships.

Such lessons were set to be mandatory by the end of that parliament in 2029, with schools chosen for a pilot scheme in 2026, and experts brought in to deliver them.

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