male deputy leader, a male shadow chancellor and the structures are hard to change. iel l lflllll wl litt lllll llll elry different. being—femalermps but then ' ' it was a total of 17 or 19 women mps in the whole of the house. it was 97% men in the house of commons, 3% women. ijoined as the 11th labour woman mp in a parliamentary laheuiflparty! of over 200. i came into the house of commons as part of the women's movement to actually change politics and say this is not representative. voices weren't heard? we came in with a specific agenda, policy agenda, it wag lbnut fhilchlll equality at work. but also an agenda that women needed to share in the decision—making and not have a situation where, in the labour party and indeed all other parties, the decisions were made by men but yet affected women's lives. and you have written your memoirs lllllll l ll—l'l '.l.l lllllll: ll; .lllllll lll ll l l the house of commons it was.