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Labour Women's Network trains Labour women for public office & to lead within their local parties & communities. We campaign for women’s equality within Labour.
Joined January 2010
Some absolutely forensic work from @UKLabour women parliamentarians has been key to exposing Boris for what he is this week. From Lebedev meetings to Pinchergate mishandling, @LabourWomensNet sisters are systematically bossing it 🥊 🌹👋
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Well that’s one glass ceiling smashed! Congratulations to LWN graduate @AnnelieseDodds MP on becoming the first woman to ever be Shadow Chancellor or Chancellor. Just what @UKLabour economic policy needs. Good luck, sister! #ceilingsmashers #timetolead #sisterlyresilience
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No, @DailyMailUK, male violence led to unthinkable tragedy, not women advancing in the workplace. Victim-blaming excuses individual men’s actions and adds to our societal tolerance for male violence. Here’s a handy link for anyone minded to complain:
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Abuse, trolling and harassment have absolutely no place in politics - online or offiline. Women are too often at the receiving end, and sexism and misogyny too often feature. Sisterly love and solidarity to @RosieDuffield1.
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Today marks 25 years since the 1997 General Election saw 101 women elected as @UKLabour MPs in an historic shift in women’s representation, thanks in part to Labour Women’s Network. Read more from our founders @Barbara_Follett & @HilaryDeLyon later today in in @LabourList (1/2).
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We are devastated to learn of the death of Margaret McDonagh, @UKLabour’s first woman General Secretary. An absolute powerhouse. Sending warmest love to @Siobhain_Mc & all who mourn her loss. She leaves a huge legacy, including women being heard in rooms they never were before🌹
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Happy 40th birthday to the unstoppable @jessphillips. Thank you for all that you do for women #NeverTheLessShePersisted #Persist 👏🏽.
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Sending love & solidarity to the brave @bexbailey who has spoken out to secure change. Party needs to listen.
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Congratulations to Mother of the House, Rt Hon @HarrietHarman MP, on an incredible 40 years in @HouseofCommons today. Four decades of standing up for her constituents, for Labour, and for women. Thank you for everything, sister🌹
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History made! Pleasure to celebrate the incredible 190 @UKLabour women Members of Parliament. We're proud of:. •46% female PLP.•100 new women MPs.•58 new LWN graduate MPs.•First woman Chancellor.•First Labour woman Deputy PM.•50/50 Cabinet.•36 years training
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Absolutely delighted our friend and parliamentar training graduate @lucianaberger has rejoined the Labour Party. The warmest of welcome homes, sister. May we all work harder every day to make @UKLabour a safe space for all.
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Deeply sad to learn of the loss of Baroness @GlenysKinnock. She devoted her life to @UKLabour. A proud internationalist, as an MEP & patron of @woman_kind she promoted women as peacekeepers &worked to end sexual violence in war. Warm love to Neil, Stephen, Rachel & all the family
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Finally. there are more women than Andy's as Metro mayors! 🙌🏼 🙌🏾🙌. Congratulations @TracyBrabin, @ClaireWard4EM and @KiMcGuinness. This is what a mayor looks like!🌹
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Gosh, where even to start. First woman Foreign Secretary. Deputy Leader. Chair of National Executive Committee. Embracer of all shades of red. What a tremendous debt @UKLabour & the UK owes Rt Hon Dame Margaret Beckett MP as she announces she will not re-stand. Thank you sister🌹
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Our Jacqui!! Heartfelt congratulations to Baroness @Jacqui_Smith1, Minister of State for Education. So highly deserved. First woman Home Secretary, committed campaigner, brilliant broadcaster, Chair of @JoCoxFoundation, LWN sister always ❤️
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We are extremely sad to hear of the loss of LWN training graduate @shabnum_sadiq to Covid-19. A @UKLabour councillor for @SloughCouncil, she will be greatly missed. Our thoughts are with all who are affected by her death. Sending love and #sisterlyresilience. Goodnight, sister 🌹
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We love a women-led front bench at PMQs. 51% women in the PLP doesn’t always equate to 51% of the airtime…
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Thanks to @UKLabour and the tireless work of Labour Women's Network, there are now a record number of women in @HouseofCommons. LWN training, support and selection system campaigning helped elect 190 Labour women MPs. History has been made!
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We have to do so much more to tackle misogynoir, harassment, and abuse in politics. It is criminal that our MPs and their staff are unsafe at work. All power to you @DawnButlerBrent and all our solidarity sister. ✊🏿.
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The only ever Madam Speaker. 50 years of service in @HouseofCommons & @UKHouseofLords. Yorkshire born, Midlands adoptee, political grandee, part-time paraglider. Humour & warmth were her weapons of choice. Thank you, sister for your huge contribution to British political life.
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This thread, if accurate, is all the evidence needed that @UKLabour needs a wholly independent system for sexual harassment complaints from first contact to final outcome. And zero tolerance. Every time a harassed woman reads a story like this she is deterred from coming forward.
🚨 Here is the letter suspending David Prescott as Labour member - banning him from party meetings and disqualifying him as a party candidate. But it never got sent.
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Congratulations to the very first cohort of jo cox women in leadership trainees who have graduated today! What a brilliant bunch 💪🌹
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In the face of provocation, our former Chair Jo Cox always dealt with her detractors with grace and resilience. We’re sad to learn a Labour MP has promoted a clickbait blogger whose inflammatory and untrue comments about Jo seek to divide not unite us.
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Roaring cheers for @stellacreasy “When men ask if I was inspired to into politics by Margaret Thatcher because she was a woman, I like to ask if they were inspired to do so by Silvio Berlusconi” #fightingsexism #misogyny #persist #lab18
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We’re sadly used to sending love and solidarity to women in public life abused or threatened just for doing their jobs, but this is next level. Horrific. We stand with you, @shah_arooj. This has to be a turning point for women’s safety in political office.
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Glass ceiling smashed! 21 years after the first Metro Mayor was elected, we finally have a woman in charge of a devolved metropolitan city region. Huge congratulations to LWN graduate @TracyBrabin, Mayor of West Yorkshire #ceilingsmasher #timetolead #thisiswhatamayorlookslike
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She’s only gone & done it! Huge congratulations to @kimleadbeater MP! “I’m absolutely delighted that the people of Batley & Spen have rejected division and they’ve voted for hope.” Thank you to every single @UKLabour activist &staffer who helped make this happen! #BatleyAndSpen🌹
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Congratulations to the one and only Baroness @HarrietHarman KC!.
Congratulations to former Mother of the House @HarrietHarman who was introduced in the House of Lords today.
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Congratulations to Baroness Hazarika of Coatbridge!. We're extremely proud of @ayeshahazarika: strategist, broadcaster, journalist, feminist, amazing Muslim woman in public life, long-term LWN friend and graduate. An excellent addition to @LabourLordsUK!🌹.
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We dearly look forward to a year when reciting the names of women lost to male violence does not take minutes; better yet, isn’t needed at all. Thank you to @jessphillips for once again stressing these are our sisters, not statistics. Systemic change is needed indeed #IWDdebate.
"I am tired of fighting for systematic change and being given table scraps". Labour MP Jess Phillips reads the names of the women killed as a result of violence over the past year.
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In 642 years of the position’s existence, there has only been one woman Speaker of @HouseofCommons, the excellent Betty Boothroyd. 19 years since she stood down, we say it’s about time for another Madam Speaker #timetolead #SistersForSpeaker #persist.
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Congratulations sisters- two lifelong public servants and political powerhouses 🌹.
Huge congratulations to Baroness Beckett and Baroness Hodge, both introduced in the House of Lords today! ✨
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Graduates! 🎓 Congratulations to this incredible group of women who have successfully completed the 2018 #JoCoxWomenInLeadership Programme by @LabourWomensNet and @UKLabour. True leaders, each of you. Move onwards in sisterhood. #MoreInCommon
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Congrats to Hollie Ridley.on being appointed @UKLabour's third woman General Secretary, following Margaret McDonagh and Jennie Formby (plus Sara Barker in an acting capacity). From Trainee Organiser to Gen Sec, Hollie is a proud working class woman, made in Dagenham. Good luck!🌹
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Happy birthday @TracyBrabin! We hope your gift is smashing the metro mayoral glass ceiling later today! 🌹 (sorry there’s no white rose emoji!).
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What a night! Congrats to all Labour MPs elected. PLP now 44% women!.
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This is not ok. Sending best wishes to Michael Gove (yes, really). If we want to attract and retain as diverse a Parliament as possible, scenes like this will not help. People in public life deserve to get be able to get from A to B safely.
what’s most sinister about this is that he has no way of knowing whether they are harmless wingnuts or pose an actual physical danger .
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Sending sisterhood and solidarity to @jessphillips. LWN supports the implementation of the recommendations of the #JoCoxCommission to drive abuse and intimidation out of our politics at every level. Find the report and recommendations at
The vitriolic abuse directed at @jessphillips over the past few days is unwarranted and unacceptable. It is an example of the culture of abuse and intimidation that has become commonplace in our political discourse, disproportionately impacting women and people of colour. 🧵1/4.
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Why we do what we do. Training women from a wide breadth of backgrounds for public office so politics has voices like Angela’s. Want to join @AngelaRayner on the green benches? Apply now for the training she and many other @UKLabour women MPs completed: 🌹.
It was quite a thing to be invited onto the @thismorning sofa (very comfy cushions). 🛋. Here’s me talking to the great @hollywills and @Schofe about struggling and getting on. My values are grounded in real people and experiences.👇🏻
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Sending love & solidarity to @kimleadbeater after unacceptable intimidation on the #BatleyAndSpen campaign trail. Her account is really troubling. Politics must be made safe for women. Urgent action is need to #DefuseAbuse & prioritise candidates’ safety
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Congratulations to @JoeBiden @TheDemocrats and especially @KamalaHarris, first woman Vice President Elect ever. When the going gets tough, know progressive women the across the world are right behind you willing you on #CeilingSmasher #TimeToLead #WithHer #AtLast
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🙌🏾🙌🙌🏼 We bring you: The UK's second ever woman metro mayor! Huge congratulations to LWN graduate @KiMcGuinness! 🥊🌹❤️.
BREAKING 🚨 Labour's Kim McGuinness has been elected as North East Mayor: #LocalElections | #BBCPolitics
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Good. This should be standard protocol where any MP is accused of sexual harassment or assault. Well done @jessphillips & @AngelaRayner for noting proper investigation (& removal of the whip) is essential. All parties have failed on this previously &must take note
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Solidarity with @Siobhan_Baillie. No mum should face abuse for taking maternity leave. We're with you sister.
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We barely know where to start in paying tribute to all that Rt Hon @HarrietHarman QC MP, Mother of the House, has done for women’s rights. First Minister for Women. The Equality Act. Proxy voting for MPs taking parental leave. An end to the rough sex defence.THANK YOU, sister❤️🌹
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HISTORY MADE! 53% of Labour candidates for #GE2019 are women- highest proposition ever, outshining any other political party. We are extremely proud that an enormous 20% of these are LWN training graduates or alumni. AWS, #JoCoxWomenInLeadershipScheme & LWN Weekend Schools work!
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6 years since we lost Jo. Parliamentarian, feminist, mum, LWN’s first elected Chair. Amid the loss, a legacy of love, led by her family and @JoCoxFoundation. Our small part is to have trained 200+ diverse women via the Jo Cox Women in Leadership Scheme. An army of change-makers❤️
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Sending sisterhood and solidarity to @AngelaRayner. No-one should be abused for doing their job. End of. #DefuseAbuse.
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So fantastic to see the first woman Shadow Chancellor @AnnelieseDodds responding strongly to the #minibudget. Proud of our LWN graduate representing @UKLabour and holding @RishiSunak to account. Can’t wait until she’s the first woman Chancellor #BuildBackBetter #KeepTheGoodStuff
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Happy birthday to our Deputy Leader @AngelaRayner🌹Thank you for everything you do for women in the Labour movement!❤️
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Official pics to follow, but an enormous thank you to @abenaopp @Keir_Starmer @AngelaRayner @AnnelieseDodds @Shaughna_P @jessphillips for a fabulous night of sisterly celebration @ #LWNGala2022. Proudly political, proudly feminist &proudly supporting more women into public life🌹
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History in the making. The first ever Budget delivered by a woman Chancellor of the Exchequer in the UK. Naturally, she's an LWN graduate.
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Today we said a thankful goodbye to an “awesome but not perfect” icon of @UKLabour, first woman General Secretary, Margaret McDonagh. Without her fierce organisation & kind support, many political women would not be in the roles & rooms they are today. Best love to @Siobhain_Mc❤️
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Officially an MP! Team LWN are extremely proud of our #JoCoxLeadership graduate, trainer, Executive Committee member and sister @AshleyDalton_MP, who has “sworn in” by taking the oath of allegiance today. Parliament is the richer for her presence!
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The most moving, powerful and brave speech we have perhaps ever heard in @HouseofCommons. @RosieDuffield1 speaking in the #DomesticAbuseBill debate. We are immensely proud of you sister.
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Sending enormous sisterly congrats from @UKLabour women to @KamalaHarris, first black woman Vice Presidential candidate for @TheDemocrats (and absolute inspiration). Also sending bucketloads of luck! ✊🏿✊🏽✊🏻.
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Sending sisterhood to @AngelaRayner, who has had to tolerate unacceptable volumes of intimidation, & to all in public for whom this is now the reality. Thank you @BethRigby for actually asking how it feels. Time to implement the #JoCoxCivility recommendations & #DiffuseAbuse.
Labour deputy leader @AngelaRayner tells @BethRigby that she has changed her behaviour as a result of concerns for her safety, describing the abuse and threats she has received as 'frightening'. Read more:
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Sick of headlines revealing ongoing sexism & misogyny?. Want to see more brilliant & diverse @UKLabour women in public office?🌹 . Join LWN now: or donate to keep us training & campaigning: Sisterhood, no matter your shade of red♥️
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We make a point of congratulating our training graduates (keep letting us know your selections/ promotions/ wins!) but today it’s a trainer’s turn. Congratulations to our Chair @abenaopp -LWN & #JoCoxWomenInLeadership trainer- on her selection as @UKLabour PPC Erith & Thamesmead!
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We are delighted to be working with @UKLabour again to deliver the third year of the Jo Cox Women in Leadership programme. Welcome and good luck to the diverse and brilliant women of cohort three -challenge, hard work, opportunity and sisterhood await. Let’s go! #jocoxleadership
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We couldn’t be any prouder of our Ashley! Huge congratulations to @Ashley__Dalton MP. You’re going to do great things in @HouseofCommons and West Lancashire, and your sisters are right behind you♥️ #TimesUpTories 🌹
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Glenda Jackson, 1936-2023. 83rd Labour woman MP. Socialist, feminist, unashamed confrontationalist. “Every woman who is successful, regardless of the field that she works in or appears in, is deemed to be the exception that proves the rule.”Indeed. Huge contribution to politics❤️
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Sending all our sisterly best wishes to .@KamalaHarris and @TheDemocrats today #SmashTheCeiling #Time2Lead #YesSheCan
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Heartfelt thanks to @UKLabour Leader @Keir_Starmer for donating his "glittered" jacket from #Lab23 to raise funds for @JoCoxFoundation via auction at @LabourWomensNet Gala Dinner. Jo would have turned 50 in June. This gift says a better politics -marked by civility- is possible❤️
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Congratulations @HarrietHarman on becoming the longest serving female MP ever. Great achievement for a fabulous sister.
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Madeleine Albright, 1937- 2022. “There is a special place in hell for women who don’t not help other women”. Preach. Goodnight sister, and thank you for your incredible contribution to foreign policy and public life.
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No, @BBCNews, Liz Truss is NOT the UK’s first woman Foreign Secretary, please do not write Margaret Beckett out of history!.
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Can’t wait to hear our voices represented at the #G7. Oh wait, we won’t, because it’s The Ultimate Manel. Unacceptable and revealing of where power still lies- not a women foreign minister in sight in 2021 #WhereAreTheWomen #TimeToLead #LadsLadsLads #DownWithManels #AllMalePanel
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Congratulations to our very own .LWN Executive Committee member and trainer @Ashley__Dalton on being selected as Labour’s candidate for the West Lancs by-election! Best of luck sister, see you on the doorsteps! #NorthernWomenPersist 🌹
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💥 GLASS. CEILING. SMASHED! 💥 . Congratulations to the extraordinary @RachelReevesMP on becoming Britain's first woman Chancellor of the Exchequer. Finally, a woman running the economy!. Strategist. Economist. Feminist leader. LWN graduate. #lwntrainingworks
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Today we celebrate 100 years of @UKLabour women MPs! On 6th December 2023 the first Labour women were elected to @HouseofCommons. Susan Lawrence, Margaret Bondfield & Dorothy Jewson were trailblazers, as @Alison_McGovern & @NanSloane write for @LabourList🌹
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First Black Chair of @LabourWomensNet 🙌🏾 recalling the university careers advisor who warned her someone like her would never get a job in politics #CeilingSmashers #persist #Lab19
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Congratulations to the powerhouse that is @AngelaRayner. Labour's first woman Deputy Prime Minister. Feminist leader. Sister. LWN graduate ❤️. #LWNtrainingworks
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Sending best wishes to all @UKLabour candidates tomorrow, and especially to @JessieJoeJacobs and @TracyBrabin as they seek to smash the metro mayoral glass ceiling! Your sisters are right behind you! 🌹
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Sending solidarity and sisterhood to @AngelaRayner, LWN graduate and Deputy Leader of the Labour Party, a rare northern working class woman in a political leadership role.
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We are extremely proud of LWN Chair @abenaopp for speaking out about the disgusting racist and misogynist abuse of @HackneyAbbott so passionately. If we want women in their full diversity to play an equal role in public life, we simply have to make it safer for them to do so.
'I'm a black woman. I feel gaslighted.'.'As PM you should represent all people, and not turn a blind eye when things are uncomfortable.'. Labour's Abena Oppong-Asare tells @Lewis_Goodall she 'fears for Diane Abbott's safety' with the PM failing to condemn Frank Hester's comments.
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Awful news from the States. Sending sisterhood and solidarity. More unneeded evidence we must never take progress on women’s rights for granted 💔.
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We are deeply disappointed that 29 members of @LabourLordsUK voted to overturn investigators’ recommendation that Lib Dem Lord Lester be suspended following allegations of sexual harassment. We must have zero tolerance for sexual harassment in public life.
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Graduates! Congratulations to the phenomenal @UKLabour women who have completed 2019’s #JoCoxWomeninLeadership Scheme. From Cornwall to the Highlands, off you go in sisterhood, ready to lead. Remember we have #moreincommon, and #persist! #netherthelessshepersisted 🌹
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Hello, Cohort 6! We are excited to begin a challenging & inspiring few months together. Your presence here takes us to over 300 @UKLabour women forming part of Jo’s political legacy, & leading change in their communities, workplaces & local parties in her name #JoCoxLeadership🌹
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Enormous congratulations to @ayeshahazarika on your peerage! Fantastic journalist, fearless broadcaster and consistent champion of women ❤️. Warm congratulations to Jane Ramsey, @JohnHannett and @GeraldShamash also. @LabourLordsUK will be all the richer for your contributions🌹
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We are extremely proud of LWN graduate @DianaJohnsonMP, who has methodically stood up for #contaminatedblood victims every month of her 9 years in @HouseofCommons. Without Dame Diana there would be no justice on this tragic scandal. This is what powerful persistence looks like ❤️
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Today we joined hands and promised to #lovelikejo our modern day suffragette. Beautiful tribute in Trafalgar Square
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And this is what a directly-elected Police & Crime Commissioner looks like! . Congrats @SusanDungworth @NicolleNdiweni @Dalwahabi @emilyspurrell @UKSarahTaylor @PccJoyAllen @ClareMoody4PCC @EmmaWoolsDPCC @CllrJaneMudd🌹. Crime reduction &well-run police forces are feminist issues
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Congratulations @Joanne4Mayor, first black woman elected to lead a major UK city 🌹✊🏾.
Honoured to be elected as your Mayor of Liverpool. Thank you for putting your faith in me. Today, WE made history ✊🏾🌹
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Happy international women’s day! Strength & solidarity to all our sisters around the world ✊🌹 #IWD2018.
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Good luck to LWN graduate, @UKLabour Deputy Leader and all round powerhouse @AngelaRayner in tonight's #BBCDebate. We know you'll do us proud! ❤️. #StandTall #TakeUpYourSpace #Persist #TimeToLead #EqualAirtime🌹
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Graduates! 🎓 Congratulations to Cohort 6 of the #JoCoxLeadership Scheme who’ve graduated with flying colours today! Hailing from across the @uklabour movement, 56 feminist leaders are ready to change the world. LWN will be following their impact with interest!🌹
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Good to see Jeremy keeping promise for 50:50 in great offices of state & standalone minister for women & equalities
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.@melanie_ward celebrating #JoCoxMP's work as our Chair; a feminist who supported her sisters & fought for equality
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Today, the Parliamentary @UKLabour Party is 52% female, as we were proud to record in this official photo this week. @LabourWomensNet’s training and campaigning continues to play a big part in diversifying our democracy, however, @UKLabour must work to maintain this balance (2/2)
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Saddened but not surprised to learn 1 of our most articulate voices against abuse of women in public life has been targeted. MPs feel unsafe because they currently are. Our love &solidarity to @jessphillips & her staff & family. Please, let’s #diffuseabuse
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Atrocious. @HackneyAbbott may not currently be under the @UKLabour whip but no woman in public life should have to tolerate abuse &intimidation like this. Sending sisterhood. All parties need to urgently pledge to implement @JoCoxFoundation’s Civility Commission recommendations.
EXCL: The Conservative party’s biggest donor said looking at Diane Abbott makes you “want to hate all black women” and the MP “should be shot” - by @rowenamason @matthew_weaver @Direthoughts
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46% of Labour MPs are women. This compares to only 24% of Conservative MPs, only 11% of SNP MPs and 0% of Reform MPs.
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We are outraged that @TulipSiddiq must choose between having a baby tomorrow as planned & having her Brexit vote counted in @HouseofCommons. @andrealeadsom must act urgently to arrange a proxy vote. MP having to rearrange caesarean due to @UKParliament’s inflexiblity is a new low.
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