It’s safe to say this week hasn’t been the best for Labour. As well as a never-ending reshuffle saga, Corbyn was accused of ‘low-level non-violent misogyny’ over the lack of women in the top roles in his Shadow Cabinet by Labour MP Jess Phillips.
So with the cabinet officially reshuffled, brains at Labour HQ decided it was time for a very special announcement: they had increased the number of women in their Shadow Cabinet by one! A press release entitled ‘NEWS FROM LABOUR: Following the reshuffle women now occupy 17 out of the 31 shadow cabinet positions’ was sent around which included the number of women in both the shadow cabinet and the ministerial teams.
To celebrate the party now having its ‘most equal top team ever’, Labour even got two women from Labour to comment on the great news. Shadow Women and Equalities Minister Kate Green says it’s time for David Cameron to make his Cabinet 55 per cent women too.
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