Politics LIVE: Nigel Farage to make huge announcement in major Reform UK press conference
Dame Andrea slams the Tory record on the NHS, which led to phrases such as "breast feeding" being replaced with "chest feeding".
She says women and girls have lived "through decades when police and politicians have turned a blind eye to the grooming of our children, and we've seen a rise in domestic abuse."
Yet, Dame Andrea warned police are becoming the "thought police", adding that the UK is living in an Orwellian nightmare.
Dame Andrea reveals the horrific abuse female politicians receive.
The Mayor says she has been told to buy a stab vest dozens of times, had her address published online, death threats.
She tells reporters: "I don't feel safe."
Reform Lincolnshire mayor Andrea Jenkyns talks about the death threats and other threats she has received, which the police refused to take action on.
"I don't feel safe" she says, and children have been "indoctrinated" in school
Reform's politicians will appear before the cameras.
The theme of this event is Reform's growing support among female voters, and concern that crime is making women unsafe.
The Reform UK press conference will be live on the Daily Express website.
Reform are holding a press event to highlight crime and their growing support among female voters
During the interview Ms Sturgeon is also asked by ITV's Julie Etchingham about her description of Reform UK leader Nigel Farage as "odious" in her memoir.
She said: "This is my impression, other people might have a different view of him. He just comes across as somebody who's got a very, very fragile ego.
"Somebody who's not particularly comfortable, particularly around women.
"In the 2015 leaders debate just before we went on air that night, I just remember hearing him tell somebody how much he'd had to drink, in the green room area beforehand, and it just felt this kind of bravado and just not very pleasant."
Reform UK leader Nigel Farage has declared the safety of women and girls is "the next big issue in British politics".
Posting on X ahead of his press conference this morning, Mr Farage turned his anger on the Tories and Labour.
He said: "The uni-party has completely failed to keep women and girls safe. This is the next big issue in British politics."
Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp, perhaps in an attempt to get the message out first, warned that the Channel migrant crisis is also a "safety crisis".
He wrote in a blog on ConservativeHome: "This isn’t just a border crisis, it’s a public safety crisis as well – especially for women and girls. Those who peacefully protest against this outrage are right to do so.
"While Labour’s position is one of quiet surrender, Reform UK have chosen a different path: loud noise without a plan.
"Nigel Farage has already said that mass deportations are not his goal. His party promised a full immigration plan way back in May and there has still been none.
"All we have seen from Reform is a string of vague unfunded pronouncements and a conspicuous silence when it comes to detail. The public deserve better than posturing.
"But we must also be honest. Previous Conservative governments did not take enough radical steps to stop illegal immigration.
"We were too deferential to expansive court judgments which over-rode parliament and to instruments such as Tony Blair’s Human Rights Act."
Nigel Farage's party could warn the Channel migrant crisis and record levels of immigration have fuelled fears over the safety of women and girls.
It comes as the Daily Express revealed a new asylum housing scandal.
Entire streets and flat blocks are being taken over to “exclusively” house asylum seekers, council chiefs have claimed.
Ministers have set aside £500m to invest in a “new, more sustainable accommodation model” as they scramble to close 210 migrant hotels, the Daily Express can reveal.
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