Women in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom

Israel, Palestine and the Labour party history that has made Keir Starmer's position so difficult

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I can’t think of any colony or mandate that was as demanding intellectually and emotionally as Palestine.

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  • I can’t think of any colony or mandate that was as demanding intellectually and emotionally as Palestine.
  • I said: “I found the British still very emotional about Palestine.
  • Why?” And he said: “It’s associated, don’t you think with partisanship with one side or the other.
  • I can’t think of any colony or mandate that was as demanding intellectually and emotionally as Palestine.
  • Mayhew, a staunch anti-communist, found himself out of sync with the zeitgeist and abandoned Labour for the Liberal Party.

Internal rivalries

  • There has thus been a powerful tendency for the antagonisms of the Arab-Israeli conflict to map onto Labour’s own internal rivalries and the factional battle for control over the party.
  • Between 1945 and 1967, this usually manifested itself as a clash between a pro-Zionist left and an anti-Zionist right.

Starmer’s predicament

  • Keir Starmer’s political positioning on the 2023 Gaza conflict is shaped by his experience of the more recent chapters of that history.
  • He has sought to rebuild trust with the British Jewish community and distance the party from what many see as the toxic image it acquired under Corbyn.
  • These are all pressures and dangers that can be expected to grow as the Gaza conflict intensifies and its human costs mount.


James Vaughan is affiliated with the Jewish Labour Movement

A painful picture for the Tories: forecasting the general election from the local results

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Thursday, May 11, 2023
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However, it’s a fact that many people now want to know what England’s May 2023 local election results tell us about next year’s general election.

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  • However, it’s a fact that many people now want to know what England’s May 2023 local election results tell us about next year’s general election.
  • All forecasting relies on projecting information from the past and for most of the time polls measuring voting intentions are subject to a lot of inertia.
  • This is a big-data technique using information from many sources and was first applied to election forecasting by the American statistician Andrew Gelman and colleagues.
  • Applied to the task of predicting a general election, Curtice concluded that Labour would be the largest party, but not necessarily win an overall majority.

1974-2023

    • The summary line shows a strong performance in the local election correlates closely with a strong performance in the subsequent general election (r=0.67).
    • Conservative seats won in general elections, and in local elections in the preceding years: The relationship can be used to forecast seats in the next general election.
    • The correlation is not perfect, so using it to forecast in this way is subject to errors.
    • The Conservatives took 28.6% of the seats, Labour 33.3% and the Liberal Democrats 20.2% in the local elections.
    • A similar analysis for Labour forecasts that the party will win 281 seats and the Liberal Democrats 41 seats.

Statement from Bea Bruske on the death of Alexa McDonough

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OTTAWA, Jan. 15, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Bea Bruske, President of the Canadian Labour Congress, released the following statement today:

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  • OTTAWA, Jan. 15, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Bea Bruske, President of the Canadian Labour Congress, released the following statement today:
    It was with great sadness that I learned of the death of Alexa McDonough, a true Canadian political giant.
  • There is not a woman in Canadian politics or public life who does not owe a debt to the trailblazing role Alexa has played.
  • Alexa was someone who had an abundance of dedication, and never one to shy away from hard work or a difficult fight.
  • Labour unions worked to help honour her in 2013, raising funds to make sure Alexas contributions were permanently recognized at Mount Saint Vincents Alexa McDonough Institute for Women, Gender and Social Justice.

Celebrating 100 Years of Women Members of Parliament

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Tuesday, December 7, 2021
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To mark this occasion, Equal Voice is proud to be hosting a public exhibition today at the Shaw Centre in Ottawa, to recognize the many ground-breaking women MPs over the past 100 years.

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  • To mark this occasion, Equal Voice is proud to be hosting a public exhibition today at the Shaw Centre in Ottawa, to recognize the many ground-breaking women MPs over the past 100 years.
  • "Agnes Macphail's election in 1921 was truly the first of many firsts for women in politics, and Equal Voice is so proud to continue supporting women and other minorities as they seek political office," said Eleanor Fast, Executive Director of Equal Voice.
  • "The most recent federal election saw 103 women elected to the 44th Parliament, which is a record for Canada.
  • Founded in 2001, Equal Voice is a national, bilingual, multi-partisan, not-for-profit organization dedicated to electing more women to all levels of political office in Canada.

Women Members of Parliament: Background Paper

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Friday, April 5, 2019
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Friday, April 5, 2019This briefing paper provides a list of all the women who have ever been elected to the House of Commons.

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    This briefing paper provides a list of all the women who have ever been elected to the House of Commons.

  • This briefing paper provides a list of all the women who have ever been elected to the House of Commons, since the passage of the Parliament (Qualification of Women) Act 1918, which allowed women to stand as parliamentary candidates from 1918.
  • Of the 650 seats in the House of Commons, 210 are held by women MPs, the highest number ever.
  • Following the election of rfhlaith Begley on 3 May 2018, the total number of women MPs increased to 209.