Our thanks to David for this piece by Andrea Jenkyns MP in today’s Sunday Express. The start of the piece:

March 8 is Interna­tional Women’s Day; and Parliament will have its annual deb­ate celebrating the marvellousness of women and our feminist friends will speak up about why we need more women in “top jobs”.

There will also be a host of photo opportunities where women can stand together and, each year, I am asked by colleagues to take part in such festivities but each year I give the same response – sorry, I’m not a feminist. [J4MB emphasis. No need to be sorry, Andrea, you should be proud of the fact.] This is because I don’t believe in singling anybody out, by their gender, by whom they love, or by their race or religion. In fact, I believe the opposite. True equality is about treating everyone as equal regardless of creed or colour and not by divid­ing people into groups.

This is the first instance I can recall of a currently sitting female Conservative MP declaring herself a non-feminist.

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