Ms Brown was appointed MBE in the 2022 New Year Honours for services to charitable causes and vulnerable women. The following year, while sitting alongside Sir Keir Starmer at a Women's Aid panel, she urged the Labour leader to make tackling domestic violence one of his "national missions".

Leeds-born singer Melanie Brown appears at the World Economic Forum in Davos and calls on the Government to increase the funding for domestic abuse charities. Source: PA, World Economic Forum

SPICE Girl Melanie Brown has called for action instead of words on domestic abuse. The singer, a patron of the charity Women’s Aid — whose campaign is supported by The Sun — spoke out at the World