A big win for fairer politics: Why Section 106 mattersHow many women stand for election every year? It’s hard to tell. That’s because right now, parties don’t have to publish information on the diversity of their candidates. However, last month, the Minister for Women...Posted 19 Feb 2025
Slow progress as women finally make up 40% of ParliamentThe 2024 General Election saw in a Labour Government and a brand-new cohort of MPs (335 new MPs) elected; but with all this churn how representative is our House of Commons? Before the election we...Posted 10 Jul 2024
10 years since the Equality Act was introduced, parties need to come clean on diversityIt has been 10 years since the Equality Act (2010) received Royal Assent, providing Britain with a legal framework to protect the rights of individuals and advance equality of opportunity for all. Sadly, not all of...Posted 08 Apr 2020
200 years since the Peterloo Massacre, Westminster is still brokenThe events of 2019 have put the problems of Westminster’s system into sharp focus. From discussions about the Prime Minister proroguing parliament, to MPs leaving main parties to form their own (only to splinter within...Posted 16 Aug 2019
Euro elections show how Westminster’s first past the post holds back womenElections to the European Parliament take place today across the UK. As we’ve talked about in a previous blog post, the UK’s 73 MEPs will be elected using proportional representation (PR). In Great Britain, the...Posted 23 May 2019
Political parties need to stand more women candidates to close the political gender gapThere can be no doubt that in order to see more women elected to our political institutions, political parties need to stand more women candidates. Yet there is no official information on the diversity of...Posted 08 Mar 2019
One simple change could take us much closer to gender equality in politicsThere can be no doubt that in order to see more women elected to our political institutions, political parties need to stand more women candidates. Yet there is no official information on the diversity of...Posted 04 Apr 2018