A GLASGOW MP is to lead a debate calling for an end to Westminster’s “medieval” rape clause.

Alison Thewliss, who represents the Glasgow Central area, is hoping to force the government to account for their policy which would come into force in April.

It would see any woman who becomes pregnant with a third child as a result of rape having to prove their circumstances in order to claim child tax credits,

The government proposals announced in the 2015 budget will see a change to child tax credits, with parents only eligible to receive credits for their first two kids.

Alison Thewliss has branded the policy “degrading” and “dehumanising” and has been campaigning for it to be dropped since it was announced.

A debate will be held today at Westminster, giving Ms Thewliss the chance to challenge ministers and try to get answers to questions she says are not being addressed.

Speaking ahead of the event, she said: “Whilst the campaign to scrap the rape clause has been gathering momentum, endless unanswered questions about this medieval policy have been piling up in Whitehall.

“Since spotting this proposal buried in the 2015 budget, it has been my firm belief that, as well as being fundamentally immoral, this is also completely unworkable.

“I am pleased that today will afford me the opportunity to forensically question Ministers in Parliament and, crucially, on the public record. “

Ms Thewliss has accused the Government of not knowing how their two child policy would work, and says it would discriminate against people who, for religious reasons, may have larger families.

She appealed to Prime Minster Theresa May when she took office to look again at the policy and has encouraged her to throw it “on to the bonfire”.

Ms Thewliss added: “There are just far too many unanswered questions and concerns around this policy; the Government wrote to me and confirmed that they still hadn’t figured out the detail of how their plans could be implemented.

“Theresa May’s new Government hasn’t been shy about making policy u-turns and ditching some of David Cameron and George Osborne’s prized policies.

“The rape clause and two child policy should be next to be thrown onto this new Government’s bonfire and I’m giving Ministers that very opportunity today, when they can come to the chamber and scrap these wicked plans.”

As reported in the Evening Times, the MP met with Welfare Minster Lord Freud earlier this year to discuss the policy in private, but later criticised his attitude during the meeting.

She said: “I had an utterly woeful private meeting with the Welfare Minister, Lord Freud, who failed to answer very basic questions and, worse still, he suggested that physically and sexually abused women should just ‘flee’ from such situations.

“This demonstrated a blatant ignorance of the dehumanising nature of domestic and sexual abuse.”

The DWP said at the time Ms Thewliss had given an “inaccurate and deliberately misleading account” of the meeting, and insisted they would “develop appropriate exemptions and protections” in the policy.