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LABOUR leader Ed Miliband yesterday boosted his party’s call for all-women shortlists by calling for a 50-50 gender balance in Parliament.
Mr Miliband told Red magazine that while Prime Minister David Cameron had never reached the targets he had himself set, women now made up 40 per cent of the shadow cabinet.
Yet he believes this number is not enough and hopes to get to a half-half distribution of seats in Parliament.
What’s behind the stubborn gender gap in Stem disciplines ask ROX MIDDLETON, LIAM SHAW and MIRIAM GAUNTLETT in their column Science and Society
Sixty Red-Green seats in a hung parliament could force Labour to choose between the death of centrism or accommodation with the left — but only if enough of us join the Greens by July 31 and support Zack Polanski’s leadership, writes JAMES MEADWAY
We’ll be developing a people’s manifesto for the 2026 local elections. We’ll network, learn, inspire and support each other and chart a future path for socialist politics, writes JAMIE DRISCOLL
