The great Parliamentarian then spoke to his colleagues from the heart. “Some Members wept,” Channon noted.
If you know a woman who would make a phenomenal Conservative representative, ask her to stand.
Two former Conservative Women’s Organisation Chairmen on its centenary – “predating Labour’s Women’s Network by six decades”.
By accepting that 16 and 17 year olds in Scotland could vote on their future during the Scottish referendum, we undermined the case for not extending the franchise further.
“I think it’s amazing how well the men did for two thousand years considering that they tried to do it alone.”
Too often, we still take our democratic rights for granted.
It was not entirely clear at the time that it had created a new political structure that would last for generations – with the Conservatives as the leading party of the state.
In 2005, the party still only had 17 women MPs. Ten years on, it is 68. The Universities are taking note.
It was Lord Robert Cecil who brought in the Parliament (Qualification of Women) Act of 1918 which gave women the right to be MPs.