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Female MPs from around world to gather for UK suffrage event

Source: The Guardian

More than 100 female politicians from around the world, from Afghanistan to the Vatican, will sit in the House of Commons for a landmark event to mark the centenary of women first winning the right to vote in the UK.

The Women MPs of the World conference, in which there will be parliamentarians from 104 countries on the green benches in early November, will be co-hosted by the Labour MP Harriet Harman, the mother of the house, and the international development secretary, Penny Mordaunt.

Theresa May has been invited to address the conference, though the prime minister’s attendance is likely to depend on travel plans during the November recess.

Click here to read the full article published by The Guardian on 12 September 2018.

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More than 100 female politicians from around the world, from Afghanistan to the Vatican, will sit in the House of Commons for a landmark event to mark the centenary of women first winning the right to vote in the UK.

The Women MPs of the World conference, in which there will be parliamentarians from 104 countries on the green benches in early November, will be co-hosted by the Labour MP Harriet Harman, the mother of the house, and the international development secretary, Penny Mordaunt.

Theresa May has been invited to address the conference, though the prime minister’s attendance is likely to depend on travel plans during the November recess.

Click here to read the full article published by The Guardian on 12 September 2018.

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