We cannot win the next election ignoring 51% of the population, or with the women’s vote as an afterthought. We must start building a presence where women are spending their time. The occasional Instagram post on the Tampon Tax isn’t going to cut it.
It was a Conservative woman MP who was the first to sit in Parliament but 100 years later just a quarter of those who sit on our benches are women.
We need more incredible women to be part of the party’s renewal and to reverse the stagnant change in representation seen at the last election.