Why should Keir Starmer step aside? His rivals have few feminist credentials Catherine Bennett
over 5 years in The guardian
Being a woman in itself isn’t enough to lead Labour – it’s the record and policies that count
After Margaret Thatcher’s death in 2013, important Labour voices explained absolutely no value attached to her allegedly symbolic achievements as a female leader.
Glenda Jackson implicitly rebuked Ed Miliband, who had noted of Thatcher that “at each stage of her life, she broke the mould”, becoming “the only woman in the cabinet when she was appointed in 1970; and, of course, the first woman prime minister”. Continue reading...
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