History has been made today as the United Kingdom woke up to a new government, with Labour leader Keir Starmer becoming Prime ...

the 2019 general election did create the UK’s most diverse Parliament with more female MPs elected as well as more MPs from ethnic minority backgrounds. Alongside this the number of MPs who ...

In 2010, less than a quarter of MPs were women. By 2019, they made up just a third of the Commons but now, this new cohort of MPs has meant we’re getting closer to a 50/50 parliament.

120 female MPs from 86 countries gather ... It marks the 100th anniversary of the first women in the UK receiving the right to stand for election to Parliament, which came in the same year as ...

A group of MPs are planning to establish a women’s caucus in the UK parliament in order to ‘advance issues that ...

Labour MP Diane Abbott was the first black woman elected to Parliament in the UK. In the past century, there have only been 491 female MPs - while 4,503 male MPs have been elected in that same time.

Women MPs cited sexism, the "irrelevance" of Parliament and poor quality debate as reasons why some had decided to quit. The Fawcett Society, which campaigns for sexual equality, called for the ...

Liberal Democrat leader Jo Swinson may have lost her seat in the 2019 general election, but we have more female lawmakers than ever before. Here are the new names to know. A record number of ...

A new analysis by the Commons Library highlighted this regional milestone in making Parliament more representative ... (51 per cent) London MPs are women, the only UK country or region where ...

Newly elected lawmakers set their sights on archaic customs like “bobbing” to win the Commons speaker’s attention.

Parliament must compensate all affected women.” Eastleigh MP Liz Jarvis and New Forest East MP Sir Julian Lewis were both in attendance to support the Solent campaign. “There are hundreds of MPs from ...