and margotjames, let me bring you in. but you were also an mp and now you are out of parliament. i wonder now, you know, reflecting on that little shift between journalists and mps and how it plays into the culture from the mp side, what's your take on it? well, from my friends i who were in parliament, i'm sorry to say that i think that it has got _ worse since i left. which, you know, i was always on a progressive conveyor- if you like, hoping _ and assuming things would get better, not worse, but if anything it's| taken a step backwards. but... why do you think that is? 0h... well, awkwardly, ijust say that i think is possibly- because of the election - of a lot more conservative men. i do feel there is a _ difference between, from my recollection, certain- behaviours that were more common in my party than they were on the labour. benches, and i think that's partly because women - in the labour party have been banging this drum about oncej is unacceptable behaviour and what is not for longer than women in the conservat