When the Women’s Equality Party launched two years ago people broadly divided into two groups. The first ran towards us with joyful calls of “at long last”; the second turned their backs and folded their arms with the warning: “You’ll only split the vote!” Now, as we field candidates in our first general election, both camps have raised their voices again — and I’m glad of both equally. I am delighted to have so many brave and creative people campaigning with us for change. People who are alive to the transformative potential of a fairer economy and more equal society; who know that this is about more than quotas for parliament or choice of footwear in the workplace. It is about fundamentally restructuring the way…

Source: The Times April 28, 2017 00:45 UTC