A FUNNY KIND OF EQUALITY

HISTORY of a kind was made this week when Labour’s Danielle Rowley apologised for being late for a debate. She told fellow MPs she had her period.

Lord alive, is this what Parliament has been reduced to?

It’s not enough that we’ve had MPs sobbing over Universal Credit benefits, their abortions and alcoholic dads — now we have to listen to a woman telling the world it’s that time of the month.

She made the comment during a debate about what’s been dubbed ‘period poverty’ — claiming the average annual cost of sanitary products is £500. The Government is under pressure to offer such products free to women on low incomes.

England’s chief medical officer has already called for women to have time off for the menopause. It’s a funny old world. On the one hand women want, rightly, to be treated as equals. On the other, they want special concessions. Work that one out.