Eleanor laing mp biography of william hill

You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. This article about a Member of the Parliament of Ireland up to is a stub. Contents move to sidebar hide. Article Talk. Read Edit View history. Tools Tools. Download as PDF Printable version. In the end, Laing lost out in that election to Lindsay Hoyle but was elected Senior Deputy Speaker and became the first woman to become the chairman of Ways and Means.

Laing is clearly livid. Simply appalling, childish, crass, and just stupid. I must pick my words wisely here given my position as Deputy Speaker, but I think what I can say is that there are some genuine points to be made about the interaction between men and women in the political world and that women often look at things from a different perspective from men.

But what we must avoid is the trivialisation of the position of women. And that kind of stupid story just takes us back the way. But to talk about the length of her skirt or her legs in that way, it just trivialises everything about her abilities. It really is not more than that. But they are a tiny minority. When I came in here 25 years ago, that was the atmosphere the whole time, the whole time.

Men patronising you and looking you up and down in that way. And in those days, I used to dress in a much more old-fashioned way than I do now in parliament. I purposely wore skirts below my knee rather than above my knee, whereas, when I was out socialising, of course, I wore tight jeans and short skirts, but not in here. But attitudes have changed just as the make-up of parliamentarians has changed, which is why those claims about Angela were so depressing.

I ask Laing what she then makes of the mess that politicians appear to get into even defining what is a woman. And I am very, very concerned that the enormous achievements that we, who count ourselves as feminists, have made over these last few decades, are in danger of being undermined. For the women who bear children, bring up children, and do all the other things that only women can do.

This is clearly a sensitive area and Laing is acutely aware that she has been criticised for having a mixed record on voting for gay rights. She abstained against the repeal of Section 28 in ; voted for civil partnerships in ; and abstained in the vote for equal marriage. Going back further, she spearheaded the Tory rebels in to back a motion lowering the age of consent to 16 for homosexual men.

Young people need protection, but young people are not protected by being made into criminals. Former Speaker John Bercow. In JanuaryLaing publicly criticised Tulip Siddiq, who was seven months pregnant at the time, for breaking the customs of the House by leaving a debate shortly after speaking. Siddiq had already been in the debate for two hours and left at to eat.

According to witnesses, Laing told Siddiq not to use her pregnancy as an excuse for her behaviour. Laing voted to leave in the European Union membership referendum and was happy with the result. After the general election, and the return of the Conservatives to power, Laing did not receive a post in the Government. In she was one of MPs who voted to preserve what critics called a lax and over-generous system of Parliamentary expenses, which permits Members of Parliament to claim for expenses without producing receipts.

Inher constituency returned to safe seat status with a She has an interest in education, transport, economic policy, constitution and devolution. Retrieved 21 November House of Commons of the United Kingdom.

Eleanor laing mp biography of william hill

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