The Daily Mail’s attack on Kate Maltby shows the price women pay for speaking out

When a woman comes forward, she knows her credibility will be undermined.

How posh does a woman have to be for her account of a man’s behaviour to be dismissed? How ambitious?

Journalist and Tory activist Kate Maltby wrote for the Times this week about her discomfiting relationship with the MP Damian Green. For that, the Daily Mail has profiled her under the headline “One very pushy lady”, calling her “a woman determined to make it in politics – whatever the cost.”