I have just heard Baroness Anne Jenkin and Harriet Harman MP whingeing on Radio 4's PM programme about the deficiency in female representation across their respective parliamentary parties. To Baroness Jenkin one should point out that while David Cameron - as on so many things - said the right words, his actions sent out the opposite signal, that women should not expect promotion within government. His first major reshuffle (in which Nick Clegg was disgracefully complaisant) saw an actual reduction in the number of women holding key positions. To both, and to the PM editor, attention should be drawn to the Liberal Democrats who have actually achieved a complete reversal of male domination in Commons representation.
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