The Prime Minister has strongly criticised an exclusive men-only fundraising event at which the all-female staff were allegedly sexually harassed by guests.

An undercover reporter for the Financial Times attended the Presidents Club Charity Dinner on 18 January and observed hostesses being “groped, sexually harassed and propositioned”. One of the guests at the event was Nadhim Zahawi, the minister for children and families.

Speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Theresa May said that she was “frankly appalled” by the alleged behaviour at the event.

“I thought that that sort of attitude of the objectification of women was something that was in the past, that we had managed to overcome,” she said.

However, the Prime Minister defended Zahawi, who she said left the dinner early because he was “uncomfortable” about the tenor of the evening. She also rebuffed the suggestion that laws against sexual harassment should be introduced, saying that it was more important to tackle “attitudes”.

“Sadly I think what we saw from this Presidents Club is this is about attitudes and it is about saying that actually, women are not objects just to be used by men,” she said.

Read the full story at The Telegraph.

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