May hails women’s sport ‘watershed’ after successes in cricket and rugby

THERESA May has hailed a “watershed summer” for women’s sport as she welcomed England’s female cricket and rugby teams to Number 10.

Skipper Heather Knight led England’s cricketers to victory in the Women’s World Cup in July while their rugby-playing counterparts were runners-up after a thrilling final against New Zealand last week.

The Prime Minister said both England teams had contributed to a “breakthrough moment” for female sport.

She said: “It was a great honour to welcome two teams, whose achievements have been such an important part of this breakthrough moment, to Downing Street. Interest in women’s

Theresa May welcomes teams to Downing Street.

sports is at an all-time high and with record attendances and huge global interest, I hope we can seize this opportunity to grow women and girls’ sport in communities

across the length and breadth of the land.”

She told the teams: “I am proud that, with you, our nation can call on such wonderful ambassadors for women and girls.” TRADE union giant Unite has urged the SNP to begin a tax revolution.

Its Scottish general-secretary, Pat Rafferty, said he believed only radical rises in income tax would address the inequalities emerging from The Herald’s revelations on executive pay.

We revealed that Scotland’s top chief executives are pocketing pay packets worth more than 24 times the salary of the average worker, The highest paid CEO among the 39-strong cohort was Ross McEwan of Royal Bank of Scotland, who earned £3.5 million last year, despite the bank posting a loss of £7 billion.

His salary is the equivalent to that banked by 152