New breed of Conservatives could assist advance women’s issues,says veteran Labour MPHarriet Harman has claimed that the arrival in parliament of a fresh generation of “Tory feminist” MPs alongside men with modern attitudes has the power to boost the women’s rights movement.
The Labour MP, who has been parliament’s main feminist advocate for decades, or said the changing nature of female Conservative politicians from the “doughty tweedy matrons” of the past to nowadays’s feminists had been critical. She claimed a newfound cooperation across party lines amounted to a dramatic shift and she welcomed the arrival of men who no longer thought of a womans situation as being in the home.
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Source: guardian.co.uk