there are, of course, many other consequences to continued lockdown, luke pollard.of close to the national domestic abuse helpline in the first three weeks of lockdown has gone up by almost 50%, 50% increase in calls to the national domestic abuse helpline. that is really alarming, isn't it? it certainly is, there are far too many people who were victims of domestic abuse before the virus, but because there are so many people in their homes and lockdown, we are seeing an increase in the incidence of domestic virus really surge, and thatis of domestic virus really surge, and that is why the labour shadow home secretary has called on the government to really ramp up and publish a strategy that addresses that, making sure that not only the helplines have the additional funding that has been announced but that it funding that has been announced but thatitis funding that has been announced but that it is also passed through to refugees, to the front line services supporting people fleeing domestic abuse. but the message needs to go out loud and clear that if you are subj