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🗓️ 25 April 2022
⏱️ 58 minutes
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0:00.0 | BBC Sounds Music Radio Podcasts |
0:05.3 | Hello, I'm Emma Barnett and welcome to Woman's Hour from BBC Radio 4. |
0:10.0 | Hello, good morning. |
0:11.0 | It's lovely to be back with you after a few days off, and it's good to know that having |
0:15.1 | legs as a woman at work is news. |
0:18.2 | Or rather, in the case of Deputy Labour leader Angela Reiner, caused for comparisons with |
0:22.2 | Sharon Stone in the infamous scene in basic instincts where she crosses and uncrosses her |
0:26.6 | legs without any knickers on. |
0:29.0 | If you haven't got to clear about what I'm going on about, let me enlighten you or not, |
0:33.4 | how women are perceived to behave and dress in Parliament made headlines yesterday when |
0:38.3 | unnamed Conservative MPs briefed the mail on Sunday's political editor Glen Owen, claiming |
0:43.7 | Angela Reiner likes to distract the Prime Minister when he's at the dispatch box by deploying |
0:48.8 | a fully clothed parliamentary equivalent of Sharon Stone's move. |
0:53.6 | Angela Reiner said she knows she cannot compete with Boris's Oxford Union debating training, |
0:59.8 | but she talking about Angela Reiner has other skills which he lacks, claiming she had admitted |
1:04.8 | as much when enjoying drinks with those unnamed MPs on the Commons terrace. |
1:09.8 | Charming Angela Reiner has denied the claims tweeting that such briefings were perverted |
1:15.3 | smears. |
1:16.3 | I should say we invited her on this morning, but she was unable to join us. |
1:19.9 | Who we can hear from is Caroline Noakes, the Conservative MP and Chair of the Cross Party |
1:25.1 | Women and Equality's Parliamentary Committee, who, speaking to me just before, I came on |
1:29.9 | her, says she buys trousers for work deliberately and skirts that are of a particular length |
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