This month’s award goes to Meg Hillier, a Labour MP, for her suggestion that more women would cycle if they could ‘pootle along’ in new ‘slow lanes’. Predictably, she was selected from an all-women shortlist for prospective parliamentary candidates. Her certificate is at the end of this blog piece, it contains a link to our original blog piece on her comments about women cycling.

We’ve introduced a new image for this award, after reviewing possible new images on an internet photo library.