Labour Women’s Network Articles

The other night on BBC Question Time, David Starkey suggested I was a ‘token woman’ as home secretary as a way of suggesting that more women weren’t necessary in politics. As in so many other things, he was wrong about that – I’m proud of the whole of my 10-year...

Next week, I’ll be speaking at the Labour Women’s Network Political Day in the session on ‘Will Labour win from the centre or the left?’ One of my arguments will be that it is only in the centre of the political spectrum that we will find the policies and the support...

Despite all of the advances made through all-women shortlists and by the breakthrough Blair generation, Labour politics in 2013 remains primarily a boys’ game at a senior strategic, staffing and selection level. Labour Women’s Network is trying to even the score – but...

Emma Lewell-Buck is the ‘new girl in school’ – so new in fact, when I arrive at Portcullis House the receptionist cannot even find her on the computer. Two months into the job, the new MP for South Shields is finding her feet. However she admits a feeling of being...