True party for women

LISTENING to Labour MPs as they scrambled to hijack the centenary of women winning the vote, anyone might think this was a victory for their party. Let the Mail set the record straight.

In fact, the 1918 Act enfranchising women over 30 passed under a coalition dominated by the Liberals and the Conservatives. And it was the Tories again who ten years later gave women over 21 the vote.

Meanwhile, a century after victory for Emmeline Pankhurst’s suffragettes, the Conservatives have their second woman leader. As for Labour, we’re still waiting.

And Mrs Pankhurst herself? She died a true-blue Conservative candidate.

Hasn’t history shown us, again and again, that while Labour talks the talk on improving women’s rights, it’s the Tories who deliver the measures that make a difference?