{"id":1203,"date":"2016-09-25T09:55:03","date_gmt":"2016-09-25T08:55:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wickham.uk\/blog\/?p=1203"},"modified":"2016-09-25T10:00:52","modified_gmt":"2016-09-25T09:00:52","slug":"women-at-the-top","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wickham.uk\/blog\/2016\/09\/women-at-the-top\/","title":{"rendered":"Women at the top"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Women now lead almost all the political parties in the UK.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-1203 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.wickham.uk\/blog\/2016\/09\/women-at-the-top\/diane-james-ukip\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wickham.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Diane-James-UKIP-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-1213\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-1213'>\n\t\t\t\tDiane James, UKIP\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.wickham.uk\/blog\/2016\/09\/women-at-the-top\/theresa-may\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wickham.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Theresa-May-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-1204\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-1204'>\n\t\t\t\tTheresa May, Conservatives\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.wickham.uk\/blog\/2016\/09\/women-at-the-top\/kezia-dugdale-2\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wickham.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Kezia-Dugdale-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-1210\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-1210'>\n\t\t\t\tKezia Dugdale, Scottish Labour\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.wickham.uk\/blog\/2016\/09\/women-at-the-top\/nicola-sturgeon\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wickham.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Nicola-Sturgeon-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-1206\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-1206'>\n\t\t\t\tNicola Sturgeon, SNP\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.wickham.uk\/blog\/2016\/09\/women-at-the-top\/arlene_foster_dup_mla\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wickham.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Arlene_Foster_DUP_MLA-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-1211\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-1211'>\n\t\t\t\tArlene Foster, DUP\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.wickham.uk\/blog\/2016\/09\/women-at-the-top\/attachment\/1207\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wickham.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/unnamed-file-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-1207\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-1207'>\n\t\t\t\tLeanne Wood, Plaid Cymru\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.wickham.uk\/blog\/2016\/09\/women-at-the-top\/caroline_lucas_2010\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wickham.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Caroline_Lucas_2010-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-1212\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-1212'>\n\t\t\t\tCaroline Lucas, co-leader Green Party\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.wickham.uk\/blog\/2016\/09\/women-at-the-top\/ruth-davidson\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wickham.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Ruth-Davidson-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-1209\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-1209'>\n\t\t\t\tRuth Davidson, Scottish Conservatives\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>There were no women in the Labour leadership election this month. This was won decisively by &#8220;bloke&#8217;s bloke&#8221;, Jeremy Corbyn.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1214\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1214\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wickham.uk\/blog\/2016\/09\/women-at-the-top\/jeremy-corbyn\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1214\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-1214\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wickham.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Jeremy-Corbyn-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Jeremy Corbyn\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1214\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jeremy Corbyn, Labour<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>To be fair to Labour, they have consistently had around 100 female MPs for since 1997.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wickham.uk\/blog\/2016\/09\/women-at-the-top\/women-in-uk-politics\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1218\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1218\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wickham.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/women-in-UK-politics.png\" alt=\"women-in-uk-politics\" width=\"780\" height=\"415\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wickham.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/women-in-UK-politics.png 780w, https:\/\/www.wickham.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/women-in-UK-politics-300x160.png 300w, https:\/\/www.wickham.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/women-in-UK-politics-768x409.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Women now lead almost all the political parties in the UK. There were no women in the Labour leadership election this month. This was won decisively by &#8220;bloke&#8217;s bloke&#8221;, Jeremy Corbyn. To be fair to Labour, they have consistently had around 100 female MPs for since 1997.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[243],"class_list":["post-1203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random-thoughts","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wickham.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wickham.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wickham.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wickham.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wickham.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1203"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.wickham.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1219,"href":"https:\/\/www.wickham.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1203\/revisions\/1219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wickham.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wickham.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wickham.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}