women MPs Articles

The general election represented a welcome stride forward for the Labour party on women's representation – but the job is far from done, argues former NEC youth rep Bex Bailey Labour now has more women MPs than at any point in its history. We must seize on this...

Bex Bailey finds encouragement from Jess Phillips’ feminist volume ‘You will never be popular’, starts Jess Phillips – words spoken to her by Harriet Harman when she first began speaking out for women in parliament. Women who speak out tend to receive a barrage of...

Since 1918, a total of 450 women have sat in the Westminster parliament. 459 men sit in the current House of Commons. This means that, despite nearly a century of work, the entire number of women members of parliament ever elected has never outnumbered that of the men...

‘Why do you care about young people when most of them don’t vote?’ Ed Miliband was asked many questions last night on BBC Three’s ‘Free Speech’, from a referendum on EU membership to tuition fees. But the question on why the Labour party cares is the one that sticks...