The women making a DIFFERENCE
Jun 09, 2020
3 minutes
WORDS: FRANCES LEATE .
Ever since the first female Member of Parliament took her seat in 1919, women have been holding their own against their male counterparts. But it hasn’t always been easy, with many female MPs daring to go against the grain and speaking out for what they believe in, and subsequently facing a torrent of abuse, or in some cases, even violence.
Four years ago, on 16 June 2016, Labour MP for Batley and Spen Jo Cox, 41, was shot and then stabbed multiple times in a sleepy
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