A first
Do you know what? I don’t care that Harriet Harman looked silly in a stab vest when out with the police in her constituency. But here’s something I do care about: tomorrow, for the first time, a Labour woman will answer Prime Minister’s Questions for a Labour government. That’s something to be proud of.
(Yes, I know two women have played a starring role before. But one was a Tory, and one was in really horrible circumstances and in opposition.)
UPDATE, 2 April: she was really rather good. Hurrah!
“looked silly”?
She looks like an ordinary woman - just like the rest of us who are more interested in what we’re doing than how we’re being scrutinised.
To those who waste breath/words dweebling on and on about how women look I say ‘get a life’.