Female MPs have long endured misogyny and sexism both in the media and at the hands of fellow male politicians. Smith later told BBC Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour that combating terrorism and crime were her priorities – not her clothing. ‘Calm down, dear’David Cameron was roundly criticised in 2011 when during PMQs he told the shadow Treasury secretary, Angela Eagle, to “calm down, dear”. The shadow foreign secretary has a name, and it is not ‘Lady something’. Dorries had asked a question during PMQs about how much influence on government policy was enjoyed by the Liberal Democrat deputy prime minister, Nick Clegg.

Source: The Guardian April 26, 2022 05:55 UTC