Sentences with phrase «number of female mps»

AWS has proven effective in boosting the number of female MPs within Labour's ranks, to the point where more and more female Tory MPs are open to it in their own party, but it's sadly proven not to be enough to get those MPs to make the transition to leader.

David Cameron is open to the idea of the eventual introduction of all - women shortlists on a voluntary basis, senior Tory sources have said, amid fears that the party could fail to boost its number of female MPs at next year's general election.

Labour is using all - women shortlists in more than 50 seats to boost the number of its female MPs.

On 17 April 2014, Speaker Bercow told the BBC that the «histrionics and cacophony of noise» in PMQs were so bad that a number of female MPs had told him they would stop attending.

Despite the steady increase in the number of female MPs across the committee system, the two most recently created select committees — the International Trade and Exiting the European Union committees — both have male chairs, and their members are predominantly male.

The election led to an increase in the number of female MPs, to 191 (29 % of the total, including 99 Labour; 68 Conservative; 20 SNP; 4 other) from 147 (23 % of the total, including 87 Labour; 47 Conservative; 7 Liberal Democrat; 1 SNP; 5 other).

Just 30 % of MPs are women and the number of male MPs today is the same as the number of female MPs in the 99 years since women won the right to vote.

One, the high number of female MPs that will feature prominently for many years to come.

Not exact matches

The table below shows the number of female Members of Parliament elected in each UK general election since 1945; the percentage of female MPs; how many women were elected from each party; and the total number of female candidates standing for election.

She interviews a number of contemporary female MPs who complain about being barracked and insulted.

(That approach is necessary since there have been only two elections - 97 and 05 - where AWS was usef; and we would not expect the number of MPs (male or female) from those cohorts in the Cabinet to be much higher than it is.

1 pm: Crunching the maths, FT Westminster blog looks at the current number of Labour women MPs and concludes: «By proposing that half the cabinet should be female, Harman is - ironically - suggesting that the Labour women MPs are twice as talented as the men.»

Nearly a third of Commons now female and number of minority - ethnic MPs has doubled but Oxbridge still dominates choice of university and average age rises

While the undisputed single biggest shift in the new intake is the dramatic increase in Scottish National party MPs at Westminster, equality campaigners are celebrating record numbers of women with almost one in three MPs now female.