Women in Johnson’s government will get nowhere as long as the power of choosing cabinet positions rests with men
The IndependentThe best of Voices delivered to your inbox every week - from controversial columns to expert analysis Sign up for our free weekly Voices newsletter for expert opinion and columns Sign up to our free weekly Voices newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. One publication lauded the prime minister’s intention to “catapult” a whole “legion” of women into the cabinet; while another warned he was primed to “axe” several women. The i newspaper policy editor, Jane Merrick, said it feels like “successive prime ministers about pipelining women through junior ministerial ranks so they can one day get to the cabinet for about 20 years”. Despite the fact there are a record 220 female MPs in the Commons now, of the Conservative party’s “thumping” majority of 364 MPs, just 87 are women. With Boris Johnson touted to be in government for the best part of the next decade, we’re unlikely to see many more women getting anywhere near the top for a good while yet.
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