''Conservative party welcomes a diverse cabinet, so long as those in it don’t try and disrupt the status quo.' ☕️
Harriet Harman once told me that those who continually push boundaries might be productive, but they might not be popular. She was talking about why there has never been a female Labour leader when the Conservatives had – at the time of our conversation in 2019 – two.
While she described Labour’s absence of women at the helm as “wrong and embarrassing,” she explained the reason as down to the fact that historically the party’s female MPs have been critical of the party hierarchy, consciously challenging sexist structures and wanting to make the world better for women. This, she argued, threatened their male peers and prevented them from reaching the top.
Conversely, Conservative female PMs have focused on beating men at their own game, on their terms. They didn’t want to change the party rules for women nor make the UK a better place for their female constituents. They weren’t interested in that.– and the same argument applies. Most of us, by this point, understand that it is a good idea to have a diverse government. What many still don’t understand iswe need it.
The optics look great, giving the Tories an easy response to any accusations of racism. This party likes to enlist minority figureheads to lead their most hard-right racist policies so that our predominantly white media can’t call them out. I refer to our former Home Secretary Priti Patel, whose obsession with closing borders felt almost maniacal in its dogeared pursuit. Just because someone is from a minority group, it doesn’t mean they want to improve the lives of that given minority.
We can be of the same sex or share the same skin colour as someone without them representing our experiences or political values. I have the same skin colour as Boris Johnson, but it doesn’t mean we have anything in common beyond that.
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