Hello and welcome to The Rundown, a weekly podcast from Politics Home.

I'm your host, Eleanor Langford, and each week I'll be taking an in-depth look at the week's

biggest political stories with fellow Politics Home reporters and special guests from across

Westminster. I'm here with our political reporter Noah Hoffman,

and this week we are joined by Conservative MP Caroline Noakes,

who chairs the Women's Uniquality Select Committee,

and Abner-upon-Assare,

shadow treasury minister and chair of the Labour Women's Network.

Our topic this week,

where the five years on from Pestminster scandal, fresh questions have been raised about the culture of sexism and misogyny in Parliament.

At the weekend, the Mail on Sunday ran a story suggesting that Angela Raina tried to distract the Prime Minister by crossing and uncrossing her legs.

And it's also been reported that 56 MPs, including three cabinet ministers, are being investigated by parliamentary authorities following claims of sexual harassment.

And then on Wednesday, several papers reported that a sitting MP

had been seen watching pornography in the Commons Chamber.

Caroline, what do you think about all this?

I hadn't appreciated it was five years on from Pestminster,

and it really strikes me as we've not made any progress

in that time. The independent complaints and grievances scheme seems to have too many cases

bogged down in the weeds, not making progress and unfortunately the stories of this week

just reinforce the message that we still haven't got to grips with the cultures

in Westminster. We know that there was a meeting of female MPs this week. Were you at that? Have you

heard anything from your colleagues about what was said there? Look, I was at the 2022 committee,

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