Mr Downen said: “The Prime Minister has set a 50:50 target and that starts with ensuring that we have the really strong women candidates, so the unions also choose the best ones.” He insisted the party had already made “huge progress”, having almost doubled the number of women MPs elected in 2010, with the help of the Women2win campaign launched by Baroness Jenkin of Kennington and Theresa May. The cabinet minister said that in order to attract more women to the party, “we need role models, and we need to ask as well.” He added: “Too often we say ‘request’, instead of going out there and actively looking for the best and telling people, ‘you may not have spent all your time winning the Oxford Union talks until you hit.’ the doors. for 20 years. “This does not mean that you can not be a very effective and capable MP.” “I think men often think, ‘Of course I will be a good and effective MP.’ While I think sometimes women can think of reasons not to do it and it requires us to say “no, you would be smart”. In all my experience, I believe that we have rarely regretted that we elected women MPs “. Mr Parish’s decision to resign came two days after the resignation of Imran Ahmad Khan, the Tory MP from Wakefield, who was found guilty of sexually assaulting a teenager. The incident has caused considerable embarrassment to MPs and party volunteers fighting for municipal council candidates. But in a letter to MEPs, the director of Parliament’s Independent Complaints and Appeals Program (ICGS) seemed to insist that the number of cases handled by the body was significantly lower than the reported 56 cases referred to its officials. Jo Willows wrote: “Last year, we confirmed in our annual report that there were 15 ICGS cases against MPs for bullying, harassment or sexual harassment, from July 2020 to June 2021. We see a similar trend in revelations so far. ”
