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Women in the Labour Party

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• BBC News: The 'Blair babes': Where are they now?

  http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/4698222.stm
  In 1997, Labour made election history and 101 women became Labour MPs - what happened next?

• Telegraph: Blair babes 'have failed' women in politics

  http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1349808/Blair-babes-have-failed-women-in-politics.html
  Blair's babes, the record number of Labour women MPs elected in 1997, have put back the cause of women in politics by concentrating on their own working conditions since entering Parliament, says Gillian Shephard, the former Tory minister.

• Telegraph: Labour fails to add to Blair's Babes

  http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1351065/Labour-fails-to-add-to-Blairs-Babes.html
  The number of women MPs is set to fall at the next general election as Labour and the Tories struggle to find women for seats they can reasonably hope to win.

• Telegraph: Labour to change law on all-women MP shortlists

  http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1329406/Labour-to-change-law-on-all-women-MP-shortlists.html
  Tony Blair will campaign on a promise to legalise positive discrimination in favour of women who want to stand for Parliament, the Government confirmed yesterday.

• The Guardian: The class of '97: the mixed fortunes of Blair's women MPs

  http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2009/jun/05/mps-expenses-tony-blair-women-mps
  Twenty women politicians who lost out after gaining prominence at Westminster.

• The Guardian: The rise and fall of Blair's babes

  http://www.theguardian.com/world/2004/apr/02/gender.women
  Estelle Morris, Clare Short, now Beverley Hughes. Why are so many women ministers quitting their jobs, asks Madeleine Bunting.

• The Guardian: The rise and fall of Blair's babes

  http://www.theguardian.com/world/2001/may/24/gender.uk
  Remember May 1997, when the number of women MPs doubled overnight? Well, this time around, we can expect the opposite. Anne Perkins and Lucy Ward find out what went wrong for women in Westminster

 

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