What a week to be a woman in Westminster

Chopper's Politics

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🗓️ 29 April 2022

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

In this bumper bank holiday episode of Chopper's Politics, Christopher Hope is joined by the Chair of the Women and Equalities Committee, Caroline Nokes MP, in the Red Lion pub, to talk about a tough week to be a woman in Westminster. She shares her personal experience of being on the receiving end of questionable sexist behavior, argues that whips need to be better at seeing the talents of their female colleagues and muses on "a certain type of particularly macho willy-waving man" that is drawn to a life in politics.

Also on the podcast, Lib Dem Leader Sir Ed Davey on why he's championing rural voices, and being 'fighting fit' for next week's local elections, and Shadow Levelling Up Secretary, Labour's Lisa Nandy, on the cost of living crisis and experiencing sexism on the benches.

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0:00.0	Coming up on Chopper's politics.
0:04.0	My select committee has launched an entire inquiry into the cultures that underpin male violence against women.
0:11.0	And let me tell you, those cultures start in schools they
0:14.4	perpetuate in the workplace and that's exactly what we see in Parliament a culture where
0:18.8	it is okay to belittle and demean women.
0:22.0	So it comes from the top? I think so.
0:26.3	It's been an odd week in Westminster. With local elections looming on the horizon
0:31.9	it would normally be the week where all parties are
0:34.6	making their pitches for why they should be your choice at the polls on Thursday next week.
0:40.8	And later on in this episode I'll be talking about just that with
0:45.3	Sir Ed Davy, the leader of the Liberal Democrats and Labour's Shadow Levelling up
0:50.9	Secretary Lisa Nandy. But instead, this week a different topic has dominated
0:58.1	conversation in Westminster. Yes, sexism in Westminster is back on the agenda.
1:05.0	First after the mail on Sunday published claims from Tory MPs
1:09.8	that Labour Deputy Leader Angela Rayna had tried to put off Boris Johnson by crossing and uncrossing her legs,
1:17.4	during Prime Minister's questions on the Labour Front bench. And then a few days later it emerged that a Tory MP had been accused of watching pornography in the Commons Chamber by a colleague.
1:30.0	The claims were made at a meeting on Tuesday night where female Conservative MPs shared accounts of alleged sexism and harassment.
1:39.0	And someone who was at that meeting was Tory MP Caroline Nokes, who chairs the Women and Equality's Committee.
1:46.6	Now since our interview with Caroline, the Tory MP in question has been named as Neil Parish,
1:52.3	who represents Tiver Tibetan and Hollerton and he has had the whip removed.
1:58.4	Caroline next welcome to chopper's politics in the rather fetted dungeon here in the Red Lion pub.
2:03.5	It does a bit.
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