David Vaiani (10/11/09)
I apologise for revisiting this issue, but the Tories’ approach to selecting parliamentary candidates is very important. The composition of the House of Commons is at the very heart of our democratic system, because the quality of our legislators has a direct impact on how well
our country is governed. It is for that reason that I am opposed to the Tories’ stated aim of getting more women into Parliament through the mechanism of All Women Shortlists. As I have argued before, such a system should have no place in a democratic society, in which we all expect to be judged on our merits alone. Since my last blog on this issue, David Cameron appears to have dropped the policy..…[Continue Reading]
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