Labour MP Louisa Wall speaks to Parliament at the first reading of the Crimes (Definition of Female Genital Mutilation) Amendment Bill in December 2019. It’s taken 12 years, and required a change to Parliament’s archaic rules, but a group of female MPs have come together to ban female genital mutilation, in all forms. They created a joint Member’s Bill – a way for MPs to have new laws debated outside the Government programme. “The [original] didn't use a robust, best practice definition because FGM was very new to the country. To talk to them about how they lift the number of women in the Parliament and how it’s brought women right across Parliament together.

Source: Stuff July 29, 2020 10:07 UTC