I’m delighted to be able to start this month’s newsletter by congratulating so many successful women candidates after the elections last week. It was a tough election held in unprecedented times, and all candidates should be proud of their campaigns.
Huge well done to Jill Mortimer who won the by-election in Hartlepool, a constituency which has never seen a Conservative or woman MP in the 57 years it has existed.
Lord Sherbourne of Didsbury and Amanda Ponsonby MBE, talked to us about their time in Margaret Thatcher’s office as Political Secretary and Diary Secretary in the early 1980s
, The Vice-Chair of the Conservative Party and first ever woman MP for the Cities of London and Westminster spoke about her own journey to Parliament at our 15 Year Anniversary.
Director of the Conservative History Group, Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay, gave a talk at our 15 Year Anniversary Event on the 'History of Women in the Conservative Party'.
Our event was a huge success, the feedback has been wonderful and we are so pleased to have supported so many women on their journeys into the House of Commons and look forward to helping many more.