Leading the Labour party
From the BBC:
The next Labour party deputy leader must be a woman, Constitutional Affairs Minister Harriet Harman has said.
Ms Harman told GMTV she wanted a team of three - a leader and two deputies, one of whom should be female.
Well, yeah! Seems obvious to me that it’s unsustainable to have a situation where both leader and deputy leader of the Labour party are men. I’d go further than Harriet, and say that if the leader is a man, then the deputy (I’d only have one) *must* be a woman. And in the fantastical situation where we have a female leader, then the men can have a male deputy to represent their interests - though I don’t think that is a problem likely to arise anytime soon, unfortunately.
steve pound was on 5live the other day commenting on this topic to the effect that:
“Harriet has made it very clear that the next deputy leader of the labour party should be a woman…… preferably one whose initials are HH, and who’s husbands initials are JD.”
i like steve, very nice man, a bit of a loyalist for my tastes but to his eternal credit helped put away the tables at my CLPs dinner.