Politics Today

In my last blog, in December, I observed the stalemate over Brexit and asked how it could be overcome. I recognised that a significant number of MPs reject the right and left wing extremes of their parties and suggested that they might offer a way of overcoming the stalemate. Now it looks as though that is beginning to happen.

Gender equality in Parliament has been a big issue this week because Tuesday marked a 100 years since the 1918 Representation of the People Act that gave women the vote for the first time.  It was only a first step and genuine equality was not achieved until 1928.