School of Politics and International Relations

Dr Rainbow Murray, 50,000 members and counting: meet the political party prepared to lose, to win

17 February 2016

 

Dr Rainbow Murray writes about the rise of The Women’s Equality Party, which has already attracted nearly 50,000 members, and how it hopes to put pressure on the political agenda. “This is the ultimate aim: to persuade parties who adopt small token gestures that it is time for more radical change. We have made moral, social and economic arguments; now it is time to use the ballot box to exert pressure on other parties,” she says.
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