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.