In the general election, 220 women MPs were elected, pushing women’s representation in parliament up from 32 per cent to 34 per cent - placing the UK 36th in the word between Belarus and Monaco.
A record number of women presented themselves for office ahead of the UK’s 2019 election.
More women MPs have been elected to the
With the general election - arguably our most toxic one ever - only hours away, Marisa Bate investigates the grim reality of female MPs facing daily death and rape threats, installing panic buttons at home and asks three candidates running for re-ele
With the general election - arguably our most toxic one ever - only hours away, Marisa Bate investigates the grim reality of female MPs facing daily death and rape threats, installing panic buttons at home and asks three candidates running for re-ele
Every general election is haunted by the ghosts of campaigns past.
By Caroline Molloy,
By Caroline Molloy,
By Vicky Spratt,
"Not now love. We've got bigger fish to fry. We just need to get Brexit done. Okay.
By Vicky Spratt,
"Not now love. We've got bigger fish to fry. We just need to get Brexit done. Okay.
By Megan Specia,
By Megan Specia,
A century ago, Nancy Astor made the train journey from her constituency in Plymouth, a city on the coast of southwest England, to London. There, on Dec. 1, 1919, she took her seat in Parliament — the first woman in British history to do so.