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Challenged by World at One presenter Helen Montague over whether his own behaviour had been militant, Vine said he was "just a safety first kind of a guy".

Helen Thomas told me it was to do so, “even if you anger other reporters.”

Helen Dickinson, the chief executive of the British Retail Consortium, welcomed the government consultation and said it showed Reeves was listening to retailers.

He tells me that I am allowed to try it them out, but taster-in-chief is someone far more qualified: Helen Sharman, the UK's first astronaut, who also has a PhD in chemistry.

Helen Joyce, the director of advocacy at the campaign group Sex Matters, says the ruling is "incredibly important for the half of humanity who need single-sex spaces".