The Labour party has done more than any other to address gender inequalities, through legislation and other means, and to increase women's representation in politics, which has led to recent increases in the number of female politicians.
Lucy Powell
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Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation. -
If everybody in this town connected with politics had to leave town because of chasing women and drinking, you would have no government. -
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Today, I think the attitude is that governing is not necessarily good politics, and the result is that it's much more partisan and much more divided. -
Idealism is the despot of thought, just as politics is the despot of will.
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- Some argue that now isn't the time to push the green agenda - that all efforts should be on preventing a serious recession. That is a false choice. It fails to recognise that climate change and our carbon reliance is part of problem - high fuel prices and food shortages due to poor crop yields compound today's financial difficulties.