Theresa May, Britain’s second female Prime Minister, has sounded off about the absence of women in company boardrooms in a recent report.
By gender diversity group Pipeline, the report criticised the fact there are only 13 female chief executive officers at the top 350 FTSE companies.
Mrs May thunders in the report: ‘Every single male CEO who looks around his boardroom table to see nine out of ten male faces staring back at him needs to ask himself what he is doing to make his business one which his daughter or granddaughter can get on in.
‘Act now to change your businesses, to make the most of every talent, and to play your part in making our economy one which works for everyone.’
Theresa May (pictured on July 24), Britain’s second female Prime Minister, has sounded off about the absence of women in company boardrooms in a recent report
Noble words from the former PM who, to her credit, carried on as an MP at the last election after being ousted from No 10.
But we should not forget that in her final ministerial reshuffle, she handed 14 of the top Government positions to men. Only five women held Cabinet minister positions — and only four more had the right to attend Cabinet meetings.
As the former Education Secretary Nicky Morgan witheringly observed: ‘The PM has promoted more people called Jeremy than women.’
What’s more, only six of the 39 special advisers in No 10 under Mrs May were women. Those in glass houses …
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No chewing the fat with Boris
Boris Johnson’s fractious relationship with some of his backbenchers is no secret.
But is the rift deepening?
In the Tory MPs’ WhatsApp group chat, there was much bickering about the Government’s new policy on reducing obesity.
One MP vented her frustration at the plan to give overweight people free access to bikes. Another — by the name of Boris Johnson — popped up in reply to explain the rationale behind the scheme.
The dissatisfied MPs promptly moved to another WhatsApp group to continue the conversation without the PM.
Is Gavin’s prime number up?
The bookies have spoken.
Gavin Williamson, tipped for the Cabinet axe after his serially incompetent handling of British education, has drifted to 100-1 in the ‘next PM’ odds.
The dunce of a minister shares the outsider ranking with former Tory minister and failed London Mayoral candidate Rory Stewart.
Quote of the week:
Sir Edward Leigh, a senior Tory backbencher exasperated by the Government’s failure to stem the migrant Channel crossings, said: ‘Problem with cross-Channel migrants?
‘We should never have lost Calais in 1558.’
So now we know. It’s not Home Secretary Priti Patel’s fault. It’s Queen Mary’s.
Nothing better illustrates the chasm in earnings among those working for the NHS than the experiences of two MPs.
Rosena Allin-Khan, Labour MP for Tooting, declared in the MPs’ register of interests £1,277.56 for two shifts totalling 20 hours — that’s £63.88 an hour.
Sarah Atherton, Tory MP for Wrexham, declared £876.86 for 61 hours’ work (that’s £14.37 an hour), which she gave to charity.
She’s a nurse, and Allin-Khan is a doctor.
One of the Government’s biggest critics over the A-level results shambles has been Labour’s deputy leader Angela Rayner (pictured)
One of the Government’s biggest critics over the A-level results shambles has been Labour’s deputy leader Angela Rayner.
Yet in April, when the system was devised, Rayner took a rather different view: ‘We have always said predicted grades are not always accurate, and can disproportionately affect the children who need the most support, and we pushed ministers to ensure students can sit an exam later if they wish.’
Yet more political opportunism from the Labour Party.
Newly ennobled Charles Moore, the former Daily Telegraph editor, is amused by the Electoral Reform Society’s criticism of the new peerage list
Newly ennobled Charles Moore, the former Daily Telegraph editor, is amused by the Electoral Reform Society’s criticism of the new peerage list: ‘We new boys and girls, it says, have “grotesquely warped” backgrounds.
‘Perhaps they mean that several of us are pro-Brexit, a thing abhorred on the red leather benches,’ he writes in The Spectator.
‘I wanted to hit back in kind, but realised it is wiser to use the lingo of modern public service. Our peerages, I say sweetly, will improve diversity.’