Women from ethnic minorities reveal abuse experienced on election trail

Report noted that many EU migrant women acknowledged the 'benefits that whiteness provided them' in contrast to the experience of both Traveller women and women of colour.

Women from ethnic minority backgrounds have revealed the racist abuse and sexual harassment they have experienced while out campaigning and canvassing.

One interviewee in a new report to be published on Thursday said: “Some people they just open the door, it’s enough to see your face, and shut again.”