Labour women MPs 1987

by Marge Berer

10 March 2023
Most of the female Labour MPs elected to parliament in 1987, with the then party leader, Neil Kinnock.

Photograph: Steve Douglass/ANL/Rex/Shutterstock

Photo in the Guardian article:

Women in politics

‘We needed a massive amount of resilience’: the female Labour MPs from the class of ’87

At the general election that year, the number of women in the Commons jumped to (an albeit still tiny) 41. Some talk about the sexism – and the solidarity

SOURCE: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/mar/04/we-needed-a-massive-amount-of-resilience-the-female-labour-mps-from-the-class-of-87?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other